Tie Breakers for Prize Lists

All tie-break systems are intended to somehow rank a set of players or teams with identical scores, so that those who face "difficult" schedules will end up ahead of those who have "easy" ones. WinTD offers quite a few different tie-break systems, and allows you to choose which ones to use and in which order they are to be applied. Note that the tie breaks later in your order are only used to break ties among players who have the same score and also the same earlier tie breaks. It's fairly rare to have ties through four tie breaks and beyond that anything is likely scarcely better than a coin flip.

You can choose the list below. Note that some of these are effectively the same (for instance, Solkoff and Buchholz), but follow different rules for dealing with unplayed games.

Full Name	Abbreviation	FIDE Rules	US Chess Rules
Modified Median	MMed	No	Yes
Solkoff	Solk	No	Yes
Cumulative (Cum)	Cum	No	Yes
Opponents Cumulative	CumOp	No	Yes
Sonneborn-Berger	SB	No	Yes
Median	Med	No	Yes
Kashdan	Kash	No	Yes
Percentage Score	Pct
Adjusted Cumulative	AdjCum	No	Yes
Played Black	Blacks	Yes	Yes
Competition Average	CompAv	No
US Amateur (Team only)	USAT	No	Yes
Performance Index (Team only)	PrfIx	No	No
Game/Match Points (Team only)	Pts	Yes	Yes
IHSA (Team only)	IHSA	No	No
Head-to-Head Limited	HtoH-L	Yes	No
Head-to-Head General	HtoH-G	No	Yes
Random	Random	Yes	Yes
USCF TPR	USCFTPR	No	Yes
Buchholz	BH	Yes	No
Buchholz-C1	BH/C1	Yes	No
Buchholz-C2	BH/C2	Yes	No
Buchholz-M1	BH/M1	Yes	No
Buchholz-M2	BH/M2	Yes	No
ARO (Avg Rating of Oppo)	ARO	Yes	No
ARO-C1	ARO/C1	Yes	No
ARO-C2	ARO/C2	Yes	No
ARO-M1	ARO/M1	Yes	No
ARO-M2	ARO/M2	Yes	No
Fore Buchholz	FB	Yes	No
Fore Buchholz-C1	FB/C1	Yes	No
Fore Buchholz-C2	FB/C2	Yes	No
Fore Buchholz-M1	FB/M1	Yes	No
Fore Buchholz-M2	FB/M2	Yes	No
SB (Sonneborn-Berger)	SB	Yes	No
SB-C1	SB/C1	Yes	No
SB-C2	SB/C2	Yes	No
PS (Progressive Scores)	PS	Yes	No
PS-C1	PS/C1	Yes	No
PS-C2	PS/C2	Yes	No
Direct Encounter	DE	Yes	No
Played Black	BPG	Yes	Yes
Wins (Full Pt Rounds)	WIN	Yes	No
Wins OTB	WON	Yes	No
Wins Black	BWG	Yes	No
Rounds Elected to Play	REP	Yes	No
Average of Oppo Buchholz	AOB	Yes	No
Average of Oppo FB	AOB/F	Yes	No
FIDE TPR	TPR	Yes	No
FIDE PTP	PTP	Yes	No
Average of Oppo TPR	APRO	Yes	No
Average of Oppo PTP	APPO	Yes	No

Details on each can be obtained by following the links. Note that the "Team only" choices only apply to team vs team tournaments, and are ignored (or are unavailable) for individual and combined individual/team tournaments.

Also, please note that tie-breaks should only be used for indivisible awards, such as trophies.

Choosing Tie-breaks

When you create a new tournament, the Tournament Info dialog allows you to select the desired ordering of the tie breaks. For an existing tournament, use File>Edit Tournament Information... to bring up this dialog box if you want to check or edit the tie break order.

When you save a preference set, WinTD will include the most recent setting of the tie breaks list on it.