Online poker formula help

[Bigger]

Hi there.

I have a question regarding a formula.

Beside out live poker where we use the tournament director, we would like a formula to use in our forum leaderboard too.

As we don't use the tournament director for the online tournaments (It's not possible a easy with for exampel a tournament with a lot of players in, is it ?)

We have snapped up this formula, but i'm not quite sure, what the log10 and i can calculate in let's say a Excel sheet

sqrt(n)/sqrt(k) * (1+log10(b+(a/n)+0,25))
n = Online players
k = placement
b = Buy-i
a = added (ink freeroll)

We will not be using the a, and it's only the tournament where a player reach the money that will count.

And we will only be using the 10 best tournament for each member, but how do we make this as fair as possible for all
 

Happy new year

Bigger

[Corey Cooper]

The formula translates pretty easily: just replace "k" with "r", and "b" with "bc".  I'm not sure what "a" is, but you said you weren't using it, so that part of the formula might need to be tweaked:

sqrt(n)/sqrt(r) * (1+log10(bc+(n)+0.25))

If "not using a" means "a" should be 0 (zero), then the formula would really be:

sqrt(n)/sqrt(r) * (1+log10(bc+0.25))

... since "0 divided by n" is 0.

Set this as the Tournament Score formula, then set the Overall Score formula to:

sum(top(10, scores))

[MattBurlew]

"log10" stands for logarithm base 10.  It's a math function.  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithim and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_logarithm.