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Match Play Handbook
  • Welcome
  • Configuring a tournament
    • Creating a tournament
    • Managing players
    • Player registration
    • Managing arenas
    • Managing playoffs
    • Common configuration options
    • Scoring systems
  • Running a tournament
    • Scorekeeping
    • Troubleshooting
  • Tournament formats
    • Direct play tournaments
      • Head-to-head match play
      • Group match play
      • Target match play
      • Basic & group knockouts
      • Max match play
      • Pace match play
      • Flip Frenzy
      • Round robin
    • Single player formats
      • Best game
      • Card-based best game
      • Pingolf
      • Pinbowling
    • Elimination brackets
      • Single elimination
      • Double elimination
      • Group elimination
      • Pingolf elimination
      • Ladder elimination
      • Amazing Race
  • Additional features
    • Calendar
    • Event listings
    • Tournament series
    • Challenge matches
    • Cloning tournaments
    • Custom links
    • Player & arena labels
    • Prize pools
  • Views
    • Big screen view
    • Broadcast view
  • Data crunching
    • Match Play Ratings
    • WPPR estimates
    • Data export
    • Match Play API
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  • Scoring in best game tournaments

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  1. Configuring a tournament

Scoring systems

How a tournament is scored (and ultimately how tournament standings are determined) depends on the specific tournament format.

Scoring in group match-play tournaments

Group match play and group elimination bracket tournaments have several scoring options. They are summarized below.

Type
Four-player groups
Three-player groups

IFPA

7/5/3/1

7/4/1

PAPA

4/2/1/0

4/2/1

Pinburgh

3/2/1/0

3/1.5/0

Bonus point

5/3/2/1

5/3/1

Only winner

1/0/0/0

1/0/0

Only 1st and 2nd

1/1/0/0

1/0/0

Marburg points

7/4/2/0

7/3/0

BAPA

8/6/4/2

8/5/2

NEPL

10/6/4/2

10/5/2

DC League

4/3/2/1

4/2.5/1

Scoring in best game tournaments

Type
Samples

Linear

100/99/98...

Linear 150

150/149/148...

Linear 200

200/199/198...

PAPA

100/90/85/84...

PAPA Circuit

100/75/60/50...

INDISC

100/97/95...

INDISC 200

200/195/190...

CAX

100/94/91...

Hella Heart

105/90/80/70/65/60/55/50/45...

Top 30

30/29/28...

Top 25

25/24/23...

90% decay

100/90/81/73...

95% modified decay

100/95/90/85/81...

PAPA w/ Quick Decay

100/90/85/83/81/79...

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