* fix: lower darts ELO_DIVISOR to 400 and fallback Elo to 1400
ELO_DIVISOR 500 → 400: elite darts is more skill-dominated than the
previous setting implied. A 400-point gap now gives ~78% per-set win
probability (vs ~73% before).
fallbackElo 1600 → 1400: unseeded PDC World Championship entrants
(regional qualifiers, Q-School players) are materially weaker than
seeded tour professionals. 1400 better reflects that gap.
Combined effect: a dominant player (e.g. 2000 Elo vs 1400-1600 field)
now produces EV ≈ 65 instead of ≈ 30, which better matches expectations
for a top-ranked player in a 128-player bracket.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: lower darts ELO_DIVISOR to 200 for realistic EV distribution
With the actual PDC field (top players clustered 1800–1970 Elo, Littler at
~2080), ELO_DIVISOR=400 made the gap between world #1 and the top 8 too
soft — EV for Littler came out ~37 instead of the expected 65–70.
ELO_DIVISOR=200 calibrates correctly for this field: a 100-pt gap now
gives ~62% per-set win probability (vs ~56% at 400), sharply rewarding
the best players while still allowing upsets. Littler at 2084 produces
EV ≈ 65–70 against the real PDC tour roster.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: seed darts bracket by Elo instead of world ranking
World ranking (PDC Order of Merit) is prize-money-based and can diverge
from current skill — e.g. Kevin Doets (1818 Elo) was ranked 35th while
Joe Cullen (1667 Elo) held the 32nd seed. Seeding the weaker player and
leaving the stronger one unseeded contradicts the Elo-based match model.
Seeding by Elo descending ensures the 32 strongest players (by the same
metric used to compute match probabilities) get protected bracket positions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* revert: restore world-ranking-based seeding for darts bracket
Seeding should follow the PDC Order of Merit (world ranking), not Elo.
Reverts the previous Elo-seeding commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: interleave seeded and unseeded R1 pairs in darts bracket
Previously, all 32 seeded-vs-unseeded matches were added to r1Pairs
first (indices 0–31) and all 32 unseeded-vs-unseeded matches last
(indices 32–63). Since R2 pairs adjacent R1 winners, this created two
completely separate sub-brackets that only converged at the Final:
- Seeded sub-bracket: top players eliminating each other early
- Unseeded sub-bracket: high-Elo unseeded players (e.g. Doets 1818,
Zonneveld 1806) steamrolling weak opponents and making the Final
~20% of the time
Fix: interleave each seeded match with its adjacent unseeded-vs-unseeded
match. Seeded pair i is at r1Pairs[2i], unseeded pair i is at r1Pairs[2i+1].
From R2 onwards, winners from seeded and unseeded regions now merge
correctly as in a real single-elimination bracket.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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