From 817d144b9ed02d677a4368ca6977d76576e5481b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: surya Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2023 10:29:39 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Fix typos --- _posts/2023-07-10-whatwasthatipl.markdown | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/_posts/2023-07-10-whatwasthatipl.markdown b/_posts/2023-07-10-whatwasthatipl.markdown index 751a6a3..36e5d02 100644 --- a/_posts/2023-07-10-whatwasthatipl.markdown +++ b/_posts/2023-07-10-whatwasthatipl.markdown @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ a double round robin followed by a double eliminator with the top 4 teams to dec **Group Stage** Group Stage is used to seed the teams. A round robin format is when each team plays against every other team. This is pretty good. If -there are less number of teams, the fixture could include a double roun robin instead, where each team plays against every other team +there are less number of teams, the fixture could include a double round robin instead, where each team plays against every other team twice. Let us assume that there are a total of 8 teams in the tournament. @@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ To make it fairer to the top performing teams, we could pit the top team against second-last team. It is likely that the first two teams are going to go to the finals based on what we might have already seen in the double round robin group stage. But hey... there could be "upsets". +A better alternative for playoffs follows.. + Consider this setup for the top 4 seeded teams. - Game 1: Team 1 plays against Team 2. @@ -61,7 +63,7 @@ But most importantly, we now have mitigated the possibility of upsets! > Note that to run a double-eliminator, one needs a number of teams that can be expressed as an exponent of 2 - 4, 8, 16 and so on. Each game generates a winner and a loser who plays subsequently, or generates a winner and eliminates the other team. At the end of the round where only a winner is generated, we would need a corresponding winner from another game to pair up in the next round. -This is only possible halving the total number of teams after every such stage still leaves a number of teams that is divisible by 2. +This is only possible if halving the total number of teams after every such stage still leaves a number of teams that is divisible by 2. **What does IPL do?** @@ -147,4 +149,4 @@ If required, we can throw in another game to identify the 3rd place in the playo (The double eliminator for 8 teams with an optional 3rd place playoff is shown below). -![YouShallNotPass]({{site.base_url | absolute_url}}/images/doubleeliminator.png) +![Double Eliminator]({{site.base_url | absolute_url}}/images/doubleeliminator.png)