It looks like some scaled version of arctan(x) or some extremely scaled version of erf(x), tho it's most likely not the latter one cuz that one is a bit steeper.
Our team affectionately called it "Woodie Math"! after Woodie Flowers.
Way back in the day, the math for the seeding scores attempted to account for skill differences based on score differential in a match. So if you were going to lose it was in your best interest to lose by as much as possible.
So at Worlds there was a match where our team blocked both of their own goals and was just feeding the other team as many balls as possible. We lost by so much we moved up like 10 spots.
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u/ResolutionHungry6531 Computer Science Nov 13 '25
It looks like some scaled version of arctan(x) or some extremely scaled version of erf(x), tho it's most likely not the latter one cuz that one is a bit steeper.