David Artman writes: > > From: "Doug Orleans" <dougorleans@xxxxxxxxx> > > Wait, I take that back, we are not allowing ballots with ties (though > > I think the script can handle that). Or are we? This is the only > > instruction: > > > > Anyone may judge games for the competition by e-mailing the > > Coordinator with a partial or complete list of competing games, ranked > > from "best" to "worst" (or "least best"). > > Nope, that's not the only instruction, viz: > "5. You may rank games as tied for a particular rank, in which case the > next rank is lowered for each extra game in the tie (e.g. if you rank > three games as tied for 1st Place, the next game that you list is ranked > in 4th Place)." > > So, yes, we take ties and, yes, the script can handle them, else I > wouldn't have suggested my "padded 3rd place" solution. Oh, sorry, I didn't notice that the rules appear in two places on that page. That whole business about 1st Place/4th Place is irrelevant, as far as I can tell; it makes no difference if you call the game after the first-place tie 2nd place, 4th place, 8th place, or 69,105th place. A ballot is just an ordered list of sets of labels (mathematically speaking). > > From: Dale Newfield <Dale@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > That appears to be precisely what they tried to express (unless the 8 > > was really a typo for 3). > > It was not--I put it there. The ballot said: > "Best: > AAA > BBB > Absolute worst: > CCC" > I am trying to figure out how to capture that "absolute" statement. > Leaving CCC at 3 doesn't seem "absolute" so I put it at 8. Now, I am > just trying to figure out how that will be fed to the script, to > preserve the "absoluteness". I read that as "absolute worst of the three games on the ballot", and the ballot is equivalent to AAA > BBB > CCC. > > From: Doug Orleans <dougorleans@xxxxxxxxx> > > My preference would be to keep it simple. Also, I think if someone is > > convinced that CCC is worse than DDD without having played DDD, then > > he should be able to decide if DDD is worse than BBB too. > > I concur, but I don't want to dump a ballot (or an opinion, like > "absolute"). Thus, I am will to make it a tad more complex, to capture > the full opinion. I don't think it's a good idea to change the rules after a bunch of people have voted. But if so, you should announce that and let people re-vote with the new rules if they want to. Otherwise, just ask the voter to clarify whether he meant AAA > BBB > CCC or AAA > BBB > (other 5) > CCC, which are the two options allowed under the current rules. --dougorleans@xxxxxxxxx