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MTZehvor on 01 January 2019
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RolStoppable said:
MTZehvor said:

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There is one very important point to note, and that is HFA. People who performed better in the regular season will have an edge if the competition goes to the margin of victory tiebreaker (when both players predicted the same number of winners correctly). The formula for HFA is the same as seasons past:

Home field advantage = (correct picks of the higher seed in the regular season - correct picks of the lower seed in the regular season) + ([PP of the higher seed - PP of the lower seed] /2)

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# Username Record/PDT vs. Record/PDT Username # HFA
12 NobleTeam360   vs.   RolStoppable 5 20 32
11 BlowoverKing   vs.   MTZehvor 6 16 26
10 Carl   vs.   Chris Hu 7 9 15
9 Farsala   vs.   XD84 8 0 5

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If the HFA formula is the same, then the values I edited in are the correct ones. Here is an example of the calculation, using Noble vs. me:

HFA = (163 - 139) + ([31 - 16] / 2)
HFA = (163 - 139) + (15 / 2)
HFA = 24 + 7.5
HFA = 31.5

Per rule, decimals are rounded up, so HFA = 32.

For Farsala vs. XD84 we have the special case that the lower seed's PP value is higher, so that half of the equation defaults to 0; that leaves their difference in correct game picks which is 5.

I must say that I am curious how you arrived at your results. On second thought, I realize that you divided both halves of the equation by 2 when only the latter half is supposed to be divided by 2; the reason for that rule is that correct picks are more valuable than PP. Broken down to plain simplicity, the whole formula means that each correct pick more equates 1 point in HFA while each PP more equates to 0.5 points in HFA.

Yeah, I looked at the divide by 2 and thought the entire equation was divided by such. We'll go with those values, then.