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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
Not sure. I'd have to read up on that. It can handle the various Page/McIntyre formats (or at least, the ones of those that Wikipedia describes).
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I take it for granted that you include the Shaughnessy playoff system that the Sporting News so much despised and drove off the field many years ago.
In the Swiss System, players are seeded in the first round so that, in an eight-player tournament for example, #1 plays #5, #2 plays #6, etc. In the second round, players who won play each other, as do players who lost. In the third round, the contests are between two-game winners, one-game winners, zero-game winners, and so it goes. The system's virtue is that it produces the likely result of a round robin tournament with many fewer rounds.