> From: miyu <xmiyux@xxxxxxxxx> > > They will distill it to a single vote per person for simplified bookkeeping > on your end. I hope you mean "a ranking list per person," becasue our method for scoring will kind of break, if you send me 15 "rankings" with just one game each. Worse still, if you apply some method to find the "average ranking" amongst your group, as that will (I think) water down their individual rankings as compared to individuals who submit rankings in isolation. Honestly, I'd just let them all rank alone, as each individual prefers. That's why we are using the Condorcet Ranked Pairs method in the first place: you don't have to rank them all, and everyone's rankings carry equal weight by virtue of the ranked pairs comparisons. That might make for a slightly longer e-mail from you, but I certainly would rather have the "burden" of proper rankings from individuals than some statistics-skewing synthesis of several individuals' rankings into one! Just let them fill out their rankings, copy them in the e-mail, and I and my team of mathematical experts will handle the rest. We WANT a lot of rankings, remember; the more rankings we get, the more "accurate" or "just" the final ranks will be. Thanks for doing this! Be sure to provide any feedback you can (rule clarifications, variations, questions) to the Talk pages--I bet your kids will come up with TONS of cool tweaks or things to try (maybe that could be a follow-up session after ranking: "OK, what one thing about Game X would you change or add to it, to make it more fun?"). David