Why the Ryder Cup - new Tourney Format
I don’t like golf, let’s just get that said off the bat… or club... whatever.
When running the artist tourneys I designed them to very deliberately to allow modern artists to get their due. But all the time I was wondering how person x in the Current would do against person y in the Classic, questioning why I needed to separate them votes out, Classic and Current. Just how strong and real is my perception that there is a preference for Classic artists and assuming it is a thing (I still think it is) now strong is that preference? It struck me there was a simple way to test that - like ‘singles match play’ in the Ryder Cup.
There are two teams playing in the tourney, the Classic Artists and the Current Artists - the winner of individual ties don’t really matter (well ish) , it's which team gets the most points that determines which team wins the tourney.
There will be 32 ties in the tourney each consisting of a current artist playing off against one classic artist and while some individual ties might be one sided, hopefully we’d have enough ties for things to balance out over all. The winner of each tie, scores a point for their side, Current or Classic. Draws get ½ point to each side, no need for a casting vote (I get to vote for once!).
So this is going to be a simple tourney, no rounds, no qualifying (we’ve done that already) just 32 straight head to heads and as we go on we’ll get an ongoing score between Classic and Current.
Each tie will be drawn at random, so no seeding or anything like that. Again over the 32 ties that will balance out I figure.
Does that make sense?
The points scored across the 32 ties will give us a simple metric of how many ties the current crop of artists can take off the classic crop of artists. While I fully expect Classic to take the tourney the question I have is by how much.
When we get to voting I’ll explain how I plan to introduce a second metric which will be a little more fine tuned…
