paper: Spanking the Children

[Thad House]

That was a very interesting read, and alot of good information for us that have only been around a few years.

One big thing I've noticed is alot of the scores seem really inflated. Last time penalties had a large influence on games, it took away from your score, instead of giving it to the other team. So it does look like the scores are inflated, but if they worked like the old way, I bet we'd see alot more 0 score matches.

Im my opinion, low number of game piece games will always be harder to correctly penalize. Each piece has a much larger outcome on the final score, and its really hard to calculate penalties for this. Last year most penalties handed out, at least where I saw, were worth 1 game piece, where i'd guess about 15 disks on average were scored. This year, the most common penalty is worth 1 full cycle, but alliances have much more trouble scoring that, so the penalty to scoring ratio is much higher this year then last, and in fact any game I can remember since 2010.