greywolf wrote:frostbite wrote:Or does it do a first calculation, exclude the most extreme score, then re-calculate with the remaining people, possibly repeating the process until either you get 8 "normal" scores or less than 8 left in the calculation?
That would be the sensible option, but might be beyond the capacity of the developers...
It just makes one pass. i did write the code to repeat and loop to self-consistency*, and it made some difference but not much. But it did take me a whole day, and as greywolf says it proved beyond the capacity of the developers...
* The US system does this.