<Snip Details of pitches and game times from Tour 1>
> > > Though I'm sure you're right that the A tour teams received more pitch > time > than the B tour, I think the gap might be smaller than this simple > calculation shows. I played for Factory 1 in the A tour and all but one of > our games went to 15 points (i.e. no cap was played). Hence 5 of our games > may have been less than 1 hr 30mins. I can't really comment fully on the B > tour but I do suspect that the games were much more likely to reach the > cap > (and hence have an extra 2.5+ points played, taking from 5 - 20 odd > minutes > extra to complete). > > I'm pretty sure the difference is therfore smaller than suggested Maybe except that I deliberately overestimated the number of games in the B tour. Half of the teams (winners on losers of the pools) only played seven games rather than the eight I used for my calculation. While I sure some of the A tour games went to the cap the same is true of the B tour. There where many bagelings or near bagelings resulting in 25-30 minute games in the B tour (especially in pool play). In fact I'd argue that the gap between the top and bottom of the B tour is far greater than the gap in the A tour. In the A tour the biggest difference in seeding between to teams that played each other was 11 (1v12 first round crossover game) and after that round it was never more than 5 in pools and then 7 for the quarter finals. While in the B tour the largest gap was 31 (1v32) and it wasn't until the 6 round quarter finals that the gap was 7 or less and therefore close to the types of games being played in the A tour. It is clear, at least on paper, that the average A tour games should have been tighter than the average B tour game. As such I'd expect more games in the B tour to go to points rather than time. All things considered my calculation deliberately underestimated the difference in pitch time so I stand by my original calculation. JP __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list BritDisc@near.me.uk http://zion.ranulf.net/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/informed.asp
