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My understanding of strength of schedule is that how well you do in an event is somewhat based on who you get paired against.
I think that's an accurate, but very broad description of what SoS is.
My record is 5-1 and I played players with winning records.
Your record is 5-1 and you played players with losing records.
I rank higher becasue of who I got paired against. You could have potentially beaten me and all my opponents but SoS doesn't care.
EDIT: I found a couple results sheets in my toolbox illustrating what I was saying about ties coming up all the time for us:
Code:
Rank Name Points <-----------Tiebreakers------->
OMW%
1 T, J 9 44.4444
2 T, N 6 66.6667
3 P, K 6 44.4444
4 W, M 6 33.3333
5 T, A 3 66.6667
6 O, R 3 66.6667
7 F, E 3 66.6667
8 F, G 0 44.4444
Here 5-7 are somehow ranked in this order outside of SoS.
Code:
Rank Name Points <-----------Tiebreakers------->
OMW%
1 T, J 9 66.6667
2 W, M 6 55.5556
3 T, N 6 55.5556
4 M, M 6 55.5556
5 P, C 3 55.5556
6 O, R 3 55.5556
7 O, T 3 44.4444
8 R, A 0 44.4444
Here you can see that every single person except #1 and #8 was somehow ranked at least one position higher or lower on something other than SoS.
I'm wondering if these charts are maybe telling us the true answer about tiebreakers. The "Tiebreaker" section is really wide and yet only contains one column for SWM. Perhaps
no other tiebreaker is used?