[POOL] Playoffs

[Paul Hovland]

I'll try to be there by 6:00 to maximize strategerizing, but I have some work to finish up so I might be 10-15 minutes late.

Paul

On Apr 22, 2014, at 3:14 PM, John Valdes <valdes at anl.gov> wrote:

> Playoffs start today, as was mentioned in the Call for Pool.
> Unofficially, it looks like we tied for 6th with Nice Rack, which
> means will play either the 3rd place team (Get More with Les) or the
> 2nd place team (Bass Ackward).
> 
> Playoff rules for the uninitiated:
> 
> 1) Playoffs are 3 weeks.
> 
> 2) Playoffs are single elimination, which means that if a team loses a
>   night, that team is no longer eligible for the championship.
>   Losing teams continue playing in subsequent weeks however, to vie
>   for 3rd through 8th place.
> 
> 3) The 4 teams that win the first week (tonight) advance to the
>   winners bracket and are thus guaranteed a 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th
>   place finish in the playoffs.  So a team that wins the first week
>   but loses the 2nd and 3rd week will finish in 4th, ahead of a team
>   that loses the 1st week, but wins the 2nd and 3rd week, who will
>   finish in 5th place.
> 
>   For the geeks among us, the breakdown can be figured as follows: if
>   1 represents a win and 0 a loss, and if each week is a place for a
>   binary digit (1st week at the left, 3rd week at the right), then
>   the final standings after the playoffs will be represented as:
> 
>     1st: 111
>     2nd: 110
>     3rd: 101
>     4th: 100
>     5th: 011
>     6th: 010
>     7th: 001
>     8th: 000
> 
>   So if we win tonight, we're guaranteed no worse that 4th place.
> 
> 4) The winning team for a night is the first team to win 3 matches
>   against its opposing team.  If a team wins the first 3 matches of
>   the night, then they've won the round; no more matches are played.
> 
> 
> John