Re: Let's open the p20 can of worms again

[asnider@moose.uvm.edu (Alfred C. Snider)]

>Further, and even stronger, there might be no free rider problem.  If
>teams can be assured that some teams are picking as many as possible,
>games theory dictates all rational teams will follow to avoid those few
>teams' unpicked judge, especially if the teams picking as many as they can
>are competitive with a significant knowledge of the judging pool.

This is a very good point. We need to make sure and spread this knowledge
next semester before Nationals, and hopefully people will check a lot of
judges, because if they meet a team who picked 80 and they can't get a
match they will receive a judge that neither of them picked, which for one
team would be the bottom half of the pool.

It works for me.

I thus believe that the problem I mentioned earlier, that teams picking low
numbers of judges, would skew judge assignment, has been resolved in my
mind.


Alfred C. Snider AKA Tuna
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