Opinion on This Years Game

[jgannon]

Originally Posted by Petey

We increased the field floor by a 18 square foot margin, but much of that is taken up by the end zones which are, for all intents and purposes, out of play.

The entire center of the field was "unplayable" last year. Sure, you could use it, but you couldn't exactly drive over it if something else was in your way. (At least, I never saw anyone use the platform for anything other than hanging.)

Originally Posted by Petey

Three teams will be awarded the same number of QP's, not 2, which means that there will be more teams with the same QP's than there were last year

That doesn't make mathematical sense. For the sake of simplicity, let's assume that there are no ties. If each team plays nine matches, there is a total of ten different combinations of QP: 0, 2, 4, ..., 16, 18. With the new format, there will now be half again as many matches, meaning each team would get thirteen or fourteen matches, making fourteen or fifteen possible QP scores. There are still going to be as many wins as there are losses, so the scores will be spread out through the whole QP spectrum. Just imagine if everybody only played one match. A lot of people would have 2, and a lot of people would have 0. When you have more matches, there is more of a chance of different scores.