Monthly Archives for 2016 07

Predictability of tournament results based on ratings.

2016 July 28 at 06:51 » Tagged as: vargs , koth , scrabble , pairing
This is a part of a series of articles on the King Of The Hill Pairing System and it's use at Scrabb...

When should top players meet in a Scrabble tournament?

2016 July 13 at 06:28 » Tagged as: short , swiss , dutch , scrabble , chess , koth
In any sport, it's undesirable for the top players to play against each other during the early stage...

Average points scored in a game of Scrabble.

2016 July 11 at 05:21 » Tagged as: django , scrabble , koth , pairing
What is a good score in a game of Scrabble? Nigel Richards averages 462.54 in international tourname...

Buchholz score as a measure of fairness of the draw.

2016 July 5 at 05:17 » Tagged as: chess , buchholz , scrabble , koth
Average Ratings of Opponents, the Buchholz and Sonneborn-Berger System are some of the methods recom...

Fairness of KOTH pairing.

2016 July 4 at 07:15 » Tagged as: yui , koth , pairing , scrabble
This is part three, in a series of posts on King Of The Hill pairings a widely used pairing system a...