Who wins the ties in Wordwiggle? Anyone know?

[FlyingJoe]

Having just tied on two tournaments in a row, this question comes to
mind, but I haven't figured it out yet: On the Wordwiggle site, who
wins on ties in tournaments (or gets their name placed higher than the
others on a tie in the final score board)?

I know what it isn't though. Between the two or more who tied, it
isn't:
- Who won most of the rounds for that tournament...
- Who won the last round of the tournament...
- Who played last in that tournament...

Could it be one of these:
- Just random so no real winner for the highest place, the system just
puts someone in the top spot for that score?
- I have not paid attention to see if it does it alphabetically - so I
have not eliminated that possibility.
- Could it be who had a round with the highest score from among all
the rounds in the tournament?

I seem to recall a couple of years ago seeing that it would show one
person's name in first place on the site, but when the e-mail went
out, it reversed the results - but I may be remembering it wrong.

Anyone know how it is determined? And if so, is it the way you would
want it decided?

Myself, I would tend to go with whoever won the most rounds, except
that that would only be clear for those in first place. What about
ties for 9th place, for example? My approach would not be so obvious
then, I think - so probably no go.

[MKSoft]

On Feb 3, 5:29 pm, FlyingJoe <flyingj...@mac.com> wrote:
> Having just tied on two tournaments in a row, this question comes to
> mind, but  I haven't figured it out yet:  On the Wordwiggle site, who
> wins on ties in tournaments (or gets their name placed higher than the
> others on a tie in the final score board)?
>
> I know what it isn't though.  Between the two or more who tied, it
> isn't:
> - Who won most of the rounds for that tournament...
> - Who won the last round of the tournament...
> - Who played last in that tournament...

I had to look at the code since I did that almost 8 years ago!

Anyway, the sort order is "random" (what a statement)! Not on
purpose,
but just because the way the sort is done. In the web page the sort
is
done in JavaScript based on the scores and the scores are just the
scores.
(The reason for this is that you can click on the column headers to
sort
by individual games or the tournament overall) Anyway, the sort
function
only takes the number into consideration as it has no other data to go
on and thus the result is "random" albeit it is not really random in
that
you can actually predict the results but you can not easily write what
would happen in simple terms.

Anyway, sorry it is not more sophisticated - I like the idea of the
person finishing first getting the nod but I think that if I do get
some time with it I may just mark ties as such as not worry about it.

(I just don't have any free time)