I'm setting up a league and have a question regarding rounding.
Corey: What do most people do when setting up a league? Round to nearest 2 decimal places?
Honestly I couldn't say.
I see settings in theTD:
- points precision
- score precision
Should I set these to both 2 places? Will doing this automatically round them then or simply truncate them to 2 decimal places?
Shouldn't they be set the same?
It's a preference precisely because people have different preferences. The values are rounded to the configured precision. If I recall correctly, the default precision for points and scores are different because of the common way those items were calculated, in my personal experience. But, as I said, people have difference preferences and do things differently, so you're allowed to configure them yourself. Keep in mind that while many people run tournaments in which players earn points, and then set the score formulas on the Stats tab to manipulate those points to arrive at final scores, there are also many people who reward players with points, but then calculate scores based not on points but on other metrics, like finishing places. In cases like that, scores and points are two completely separate things, and the precision could be important, and different, for both.
I would like my overall aggregate scores (end of season) to be rounded to 2 places for all players.
You could set the Scores precision on the Preferences tab to 2 for this. You could also make your Overall Score formula do this for you. For example:
round((FORMULA) * 100) / 100, where FORMULA is your actual Overall Score formula. That would effectively round to 2 decimal places. However, if the Scores precision preference were set to 4, you'd still see values like 18.2500, 25.1200, and 91.7700. That is, although rounded to 2 decimal places, the Scores precision preference would still display them out to 4 decimal places.
