From how I understand it, the patching done by EPH+ is by changing the divisors used for calculating the points that are used to decide on the pair that are to square off in elimination.
Plain EPH uses 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 as divisors for the number of points a given ballot generates, based on the number of (remaining) works the ballot lists in a category.
EPH+ changes the divisors to 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 (or 2n-1). The reason for the use of those divisors are apparently well-studied in elections science (and they are in fact used in Swedish elections when dividing the seats based on votes, though in that case it goes winner-first instead of loser-first like in EPH).
From how I can tell, EPH and 3SV will have no trouble interacting. EPH will just run for a shorter amount of rounds since it will have to generate 15 semifinalists instead of 5 finalists.
(That said, I'm quite sceptical against 3SV for various reasons, like administrator workloads and the inherent gatekeeping that can be used against any minority within fandom.)
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Date: 2016-08-22 08:18 pm (UTC)Plain EPH uses 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 as divisors for the number of points a given ballot generates, based on the number of (remaining) works the ballot lists in a category.
EPH+ changes the divisors to 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 (or 2n-1). The reason for the use of those divisors are apparently well-studied in elections science (and they are in fact used in Swedish elections when dividing the seats based on votes, though in that case it goes winner-first instead of loser-first like in EPH).
From how I can tell, EPH and 3SV will have no trouble interacting. EPH will just run for a shorter amount of rounds since it will have to generate 15 semifinalists instead of 5 finalists.
(That said, I'm quite sceptical against 3SV for various reasons, like administrator workloads and the inherent gatekeeping that can be used against any minority within fandom.)