Sorry let me clarify this a little bit. If someone misses a week they get 0 points and if there is a chop at the end they split everything down the middle so 3 way chop gives 38 points to each. Should I use a different formula or is there a way to manually insert the points after each tournament?
If someone misses a week they get 0 points. That's the way it will work now so you shouldn't have to do anything.
If your formula is (n-r+1) * 2, then the points for a 20 player tournament would be:
1st: 40
2nd: 38
3rd: 36
4th: 34
...
38th: 6
39th: 4
40th: 2
When the final 3 players decide to chop, they will all, by default, be ranked as 1st place, since they are all chopping 1st place. Your points formula will award those players 40 points each. I'm not sure why you keep saying 38 points, unless that's what you *want* to award them instead of 40 points. In that case, you would need to edit each player on the Players dialog and adjust their points by -2 (negative 2).
and if there is a chop at the end they split everything down the middle so 3 way chop gives 38 points to each
40 points split 3 ways down the middle is not 38 points each. Again, I must be missing something.