Over at webDip they are have a new type of scoring system:
http://webdiplomacy.net/points.php
Sum-Of-Squares (SoS)
This is a centre-based scoring system. In a draw, each player gets a proportion of the pot scaled by their centre count:
(SC_count^2) / (sum of all players (SC_count^2))
So with a pot of 210
in SoS, then the points are divided up by the amount of centres you own. So if there are four people alive, with you having 12 SC's, and the others having 10, 8, and 4 SC's respectively, then you can work out how many points you will receive by following that formula, so 12^2 / (12^2 + 10^2 + 8^2 + 4^2) * 210 = 93
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This kind of scoring is often used by face-to-face tournaments, because it allows for more distinction between players, encourages going for solos rather than cutting out surviving players, and doesn't drag games on just to get that last elimination.
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We could use that system to work out the points in the tourney?