Re: trouble scoring the LZ-DX contest

[Joop Stakenborg]

Op 17-11-19 om 18:19 schreef Thomas Beierlein:
> But I fear there will be another combination of multipliers
> poping up soon which we do not have in our repertoire.
> So a better solution is needed - same goes for point scoring.
>
> I did some investigation how other contest programs solve these problem.
> One of the ideas there are to classify multipliers into some main
> categories:
>
> - Country/DXCC
> - Zone CQ or ITU
> - Prefix
> - section or similar


Some contests, like cwops and FOC ones, have the callsign as a 
multiplier, crazy if you ask me!

But tlf can handle this with UNIQUE_CALL_MULTI=ALL, no problem!


> With that we could allow more to count more than one category as multi
> and would need additional rules how to combine the values (add if more
> than one or score only one) and how to count on different
> bands (BY-BAND or ONCE). Than your ITU_&_SECTION could be something
> like:
>
> COUNTRY_MULT = DXCC,BY_BAND
> ZONE_MULT = ITU,BY_BAND ADD
>
> I am not sure if that would catch all or at least most of the multi
> scoring problems for existing contests.


I agree, we need a more flexible way of scoring. Right now it is quite a 
study to setup a contest with all the different keywords that tlf uses 
in the rules file. I am willing to do as much testing as you like.


> Feedback on that is very much welcome.
>
> 73, de Tom DL1JBE
Thanks Tom!

73 Joop PG4I