1) If I understand it correctly I should not use the Points under the Game Tab, rather the Tournament & OverAll Scoring under the Stats Tab , is this correct?
Depends on what you want to do. Points are used in many ways, but essentially they are values earned by players participating in tournaments. They are accumulated from one tournament to another. How they are earned and ultimately used is up to the league. But think of Points as simply an accumulating earned value. They typically don't change once a tournament is over. (Of course you can always load a saved tournament and modify anything.)
Scoring is a way to calculate a score for a player over a series of tournaments. The idea is that you first determine a way to score a player in a tournament, and then you determine a way to combine those scores over a series of tournaments to arrive at an Overall Score.
Scoring *can be* very similar to Points. Actually, you can configure your scoring formulas to exactly mimic points, if that's what you want to do. You would simply create a Tournament Scoring formula that mimics how Points are awarded. Then create an Overall Scoring formula that simply sums up the scores. Done.
Some major differences:
- The way Points are earned can be different from tournament to tournament. The Tournament Scoring formula creates a Score using the same formula for every tournament to which it is applied.
- To change the way Points were earned for a tournament, you must load the tournament, make changes, and re-save the tournament. If you wanted to do this for all of your tournaments, you would have to repeat this for each tournament. With the Tournament Scoring formula, you make one change and it will be applied across all tournaments when you re-run Stats.
- The Overall Scoring formula allows you to apply complicated formulas for combining tournament scores. Points are simply summed across tournaments.
2) I am giving points for Buy-Ins 25 pts, Kills or Hits 10 pts, Final Table 10 pts and Finish (placement) 10-1 (?), and subtracting points for Re-buys -5 points. I have a minmum participation qualifier for the Final Table, they must have played in 75 or 80% of the 23 games to play in the Final. Or I can do a Points/OverAll Score minimum. Which is better? And can I get help in the form of a formula for either? And where would I place this?
I (as well as others) will be happy to help you with your formula. I'm much better at debugging your formula than coming up with the right formula for your tournaments...
3) Do I need a forlmula in both the Tournament Scoring and OverAll Scoring or can one do everything?
You need both. As noted before, one creates the scores and the other combines them.
