Kevin's FBC/SF is much more concise in its meaning (though not its wording), and clearer and more useable than the expectation FBC that I named in my previous posting. Limiting it to that set of equal-ranked candidates does make it much more useable than my expectation FBC. That's probably what Chris meant.
But I don't agree that FBC/SF is more "technical" than the FBC that I've been using, which could be called outcome SFC. Outcome SFC has a very clear, definite and unambiguous meaning language and meaning. To put it in colloquial language, for brevity, it should never be possible to improve one's outcome by voting someone over one's favorite. What makes that difficult to apply is that there could be all sorts of ways that favorite-burial might give you a better result (just as there could be all sorts of ways that it could improve your expectation). But speaking of the outcome is more concrete than speaking of expectation, and there is nothing imprecise about ordinary outcome-FBC. Well, I did have to accept some suggestions from EM members, to make its official wording unambiguous and precise. Mike Ossipoff ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info