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Scoring thoughts
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Cyron wrote
at 4:45 PM, Sunday September 16, 2007 EDT
I was an initial fan of the new scoring system, but I must say that I'm coming to find it more and more annoying as time goes by. It really does seem that if you aren't 1st or 2nd, you may as well not have played for all of the points it will get you. +2 points for 3rd is just silly, and that's from a game where I bowed out as soon as it was clear I was not going to get more than 3rd rather than hanging on and giving away points.
It seems to me that if the scoring system is going to be like a game of poker, each turn should be considered a hand, so that a kitty is split between players each turn rather than as each player bows out. It seems to me that would make the scoring a little more even, as someone in 3rd for most of the game would, turn by turn be getting slightly more points each turn than they are paying out in ante, at least until there are only 4 players left. It would then let the player in 3rd walk away with points at this stage if there was no way he could win. As it is now, he either keeps giving points to 1s/2nd and hopes that the guy in 4th finally flags, or he takes 4th himself, costing himself a chunk of chips he had actually earned |
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go_die_big_city wrote
at 6:55 PM, Sunday September 16, 2007 EDT What about making it completly like Poker? Before each round start, you can either call, raise, check or fold?
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Disasterz wrote
at 7:12 PM, Sunday September 16, 2007 EDT I totally agree
Your last sentence is so true. I've been in plenty games in the new scoring where people know they are doing horribly but refuse to flag and I either have to wait it out and see if someone kills him or flag and lose more points. This new scoring is a lot more about luck than ever before. |
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rnd wrote
at 9:16 PM, Sunday September 16, 2007 EDT if you don't think you have a chance to win; flag.
sitting around waiting for someone else to flag for 3 rounds just cost you all the points you gained by waiting three rounds. |
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skrumgaer wrote
at 9:40 PM, Sunday September 16, 2007 EDT Dom is a non-poker-like element of the scoring that remains. In poker, you win only on winning hand, not average strength of cards in the game. Dom was designed to remedy a problem in Elo play. Since Elo is gone, is the problem that dom was designed to fix also gone? Perhaps have only one point (rank only) instead of two.
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skrumgaer wrote
at 9:41 PM, Sunday September 16, 2007 EDT I meant "one pot" not "one point".
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Deanypop wrote
at 12:05 AM, Monday September 17, 2007 EDT That would be a good idea, skrum... And it would make it starkly clear how not-kdice the new system is. I like it! (says someone who still does better in 3rd than a lot of seconds).
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BrutalBob wrote
at 4:34 AM, Monday September 17, 2007 EDT I dont really know how the scoring works but last night i was second, had a bit under half the board and was going to make 1 point (or lose one- i cant remember). Its too hard to get ahead
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go_die_big_city wrote
at 11:54 AM, Monday September 17, 2007 EDT I think if we abandon dom there will be those truces with first again.
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Barkindji wrote
at 12:53 PM, Monday September 17, 2007 EDT Why not just get rid of dom?
Play for first second and third... Make points just an extension of the place you get. PS someone up that "just suppose" thread pls |
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JKD wrote
at 1:26 PM, Monday September 17, 2007 EDT If you get rid of dom then people shall complain when they lose to the guy who has 2 eight stacks and allies with 1st.
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