Re: Wizard scoring change?

[Mark Ballinger <mballinger@fibres.net>]

I'm curious why you want to encourage low bidding.  I find that most
rounds are underbid.  I would rather encourage aggresive play, ie rounds
were there are usually too many tricks bid.  Could the "-soft" option be
changed to "-favorlow" and have an opposite called "-favorhigh"?

Second, I think it would be cool if the bonus for making your bid exactly
were (hand number) * 2, so an exact bid on round one would get you 2; an
exact bid on round 15 would get you 30.

-mark

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Richard Rognlie wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 08:23:51AM -0600, Reed, Jim wrote:
> > I'd prefer to give the 20 point bonus only when you make your bid exactly.
> > In table form:
> >
> >    if you fail to take enough tricks... -10 * undertricks
> >    if you make your bid exactly...      20 + 10 * bid
> >    if you take too many tricks...       10 * bid + overtricks
> >
> >    for every 5 tricks you go over, 50 point penalty.
> >
> >    so instead of a 50 point penalty with NO points earned for
> >    the tricks you did take...  You'd get the 10 points for each
> >    of those tricks.  -45 pts penalty when you hit the 5 overtrick
> >    point.   perhaps equalling back to 0, perhaps not.
>
> I've implemented the above as an option (-soft).  Anyone game?
>
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