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RE: Tiebreak ruling at the Masters

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Subject: RE: [BRASS-BAND:5932] Tiebreak ruling at the Masters
From: "Graeme McPhee" <g.mcphee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 09:02:22 +0100
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In-reply-to: <DMELKJJIMJDKOGGOEFENEEJEDAAA.marc@robbins46.freeserve.co.uk>

I'm pretty sure you're correct in what you say.  Any method of
separating bands judged to be pretty much equally good is going to be
somewhat arbitrary, though.  Perhaps a better method would be to award
the higher place to the band with the highest median place (i.e.,
highest middle score).  This would remove the effect of an anomalously
high or low placing from one judge.  Obviously this could still leave
the bands even, but bands which are even after this really are too close
to call and (barring having more judges to get some kind of significant
set of statistics) something more or less random is required.

Graeme McPhee
Wantage Silver

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