Scoring and Ranking

Ranking Criteria:

  • 10 Regular Season Tournaments
  • Only each player's top 5 scores will contribute to the final rankings
  • To qualify, a player must participate at least 3 tournaments

Championship Tournament Criteria:

  • The top 9 ranked players will make the final Tournament in November based on the ranking criteria above.
  • If one of the top 9 ranked players cannot make the tournament then the next highest ranked player will take their place.
  • The Championship Tournament will be a "Freeroll" with a prize pool of $400 and will pay 3 spots
  • The chip counts for each player will be determined based on rank.

    I.E.: 9th place will receive $2,000 and 1st place will receive $3,600 with each place in between differing by $200.

Scoring Formula:

This scoring formula is known as "Dr. Neau's Formual". It is built to reward consistant performance and placing in more difficult tournaments.

score = sqrt((a * b) * (b / c)) / (d + 1.0)

where

a = Tournament Buy-in Count
b = Player Buy-in Expense
c = Player Total Expense
d = Player Finish

The Guiding Principles

  • The higher you finish, the more points you should get
  • Larger tournaments are harder to win than smaller tournaments
  • Higher buy-in tournaments are taken more seriously than smaller buy-in tournaments
  • Profitability counts
  • Point structure should mimic payout structure
  • Encourage participation
  • Rebuys and Addons negatively affect total score. Slightly.