For those who may/may not be interested, here are the top 10 players from Deca2000 using a MARP style Tournament Scoring system.

In my case I was significantly better off than I anticipated with the % scoring system mainly due to the lack of affect the % scoring system had on Track 'n Field. However, with a large number of people between me and 1st place on this game my reasonable % points became totally crap on a MARP style leaderboard. Of course, had it been a MARP style tournament I would probably have put more effort into TnF as it would have been worth more points wise. :)

Players by leader board points using MARP tournament scoring system

Player name L/B points Phil Chapman 555 (92.50%) Alvaro Marques 520 (86.67%) John Rhodes 516 (86.00%) Jim Lang 515 (85.83%) Andrew Bornstein 508 (84.67%) Brian Johnstone 504 (84.00%) Neil Chapman 483 (80.50%) Ben Jos Walbeehm 478 (79.67%) Richard Long 470 (78.33%) Kenneth Thomas 448 (74.67%)

Of course, this table will look crap in emails so read it online if you want a better formatting.

BeeJay.

PS: I will definitely not be making an appearance at T4 as I've reached burn-out point as far as playing games or Tournaments are concerned and will be enjoying a couple of months of seldom playing any Mame games !!!! No I'm not feeling sick like my wife suggested.

-- BeeJay (mamester@i4free.co.nz), July 02, 2000

Answers

I noticed that at the end, my Frogger submission really jumbled up the standings. I recall Jim Lang firmly held 2nd place, but since he held the prior high score, he took quite a hit dropping him to fifth place! The eventual 2nd, 3rd, and 4th players--yourself, JoustGod, and Neil Chapman, were not impacted nearly as much since they hadn't scored as high. The same thing happened when the Bubble Bobble and Tapper high scores were removed. A player should not have this dramatic sort of impact. This is exactly why I dislike straight percentage based scoring...

So I guess you can thank me for helping you get 2nd! But really, congrats to you, and the others for a great show of skills!!

-- Pat (laffaye@ibm.net), July 02, 2000.

Pat,

Actually I already had 2nd place before you submitted your Frogger score but you did help JoustGod into 3rd place with your submission and I agree 1 person totally owning a game has too much impact on the final outcome. That's why I was desparately trying for the last few days to reclaim my old Time Pilot skills and take that game to a few million if possible - but is it really fair that me doing that on one game would have leap-frogged me over a player who on the whole did better than me across the games? I think not!! Hopefully next year's tournament will not use the percentage scoring but if it does then there's no hope for the rest of us if one person manages to own a couple of games and is reasonable across the rest.

Actually, I'm rather embarassed to say when I was processing the raw scores from file I failed to process the final score for each game. Therefore there were actually 61 participants and the final scores from a MARP Tournament scoring system should have been as follows - not that there's much difference in overall placings and differences until you get to around 15th spot anyway:

Players by leader board points using MARP tournament scoring system Player name L/B points Phil Chapman 565 (94.17%) Alvaro Marques 530 (88.33%) John Rhodes 526 (87.67%) Jim Lang 525 (87.50%) Andrew Bornstein 518 (86.33%) Brian Johnstone 514 (85.67%) Neil Chapman 493 (82.17%) Ben Jos Walbeehm 488 (81.33%) Richard Long 480 (80.00%) Kenneth Thomas 458 (76.33%) Steven Herschel 454 (75.67%) Alex Weir 448 (74.67%) Richie Swafford 435 (72.50%) J.D. Lowe 430 (71.67%) John Drake 429 (71.50%) Steve Krogman 428 (71.33%) Russell La Croix 421 (70.17%) Cameron Feltner 417 (69.50%) Christian Rduch 397 (66.17%) Adam R. Wood 397 (66.17%) Brad Harman 390 (65.00%) Tim Balderramos 390 (65.00%) Rick Fothergill 380 (63.33%) Aleksandar Lukic 366 (61.00%) Rob Park 366 (61.00%) Kelly R. Flewin 348 (58.00%) John Bowman 347 (57.83%) Mark Waterfield 330 (55.00%) David M. Waters 308 (51.33%) Dan Tearle 307 (51.17%) David Sonnenberg 302 (50.33%) Werner Pfurtscheller 297 (49.50%) Mark Longridge 288 (48.00%) Karl Helmer Torvmark 287 (47.83%) Tony Perkins 286 (47.67%) Span Michael 281 (46.83%) Brett Burnell 279 (46.50%) Pat Laffaye 271 (45.17%) Lee Seitz 267 (44.50%) Bryan Horwood 259 (43.17%) Andrea Rimicci 251 (41.83%) Joe Baran 248 (41.33%) Holger Gehrke 210 (35.00%) James Harder 193 (32.17%) Baltasar Llopis Pirez 188 (31.33%) Nick Johnson 184 (30.67%) William Grablauskas Jr. 182 (30.33%) Tyler Osler 181 (30.17%) Stephen Knox 180 (30.00%) Pam Nichols 177 (29.50%) Scott Bolderson 173 (28.83%) Rodney Barrick 160 (26.67%) Mike Billmeyer 138 (23.00%) Razl Abascal 137 (22.83%) Floyd Wallace 134 (22.33%) Dave Maidment 106 (17.67%) Brien King 105 (17.50%) Josh Warren 81 (13.50%) Heather Corcoran 76 (12.67%) Eduardo Costa e Silva 70 (11.67%) Sandra Bryson 34 (05.67%)

BeeJay

-- BeeJay (mamester@i4free.co.nz), July 03, 2000.

Sweet - Marp scoring took me to 5th place from 7th - do I win a prize???

-- XTC (vsginc@aol.com), September 27, 2000.