Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-27673465-20160620181234/@comment-27673465-20160622124848

Slipstreamer wrote: I’ve been pondering the mathematical possibility of this anomaly for some time. Thanks to your posts, the penny finally dropped.

Let me illustrate with the following extreme scenario:

- Stages 1 to 4 each have exactly 100,000 participants

- The top 1,000 players are the same in all four stages and they are the only 1,000 to have completed all four stages

- You are in position 1,000 in each stage

Given the above, you will be at the very bottom of Group A (Top 1%) in each stage. Globally, you will clearly be in Group L. Or should that be LL – Lucky Last at the very bottom! I understand what you are saying BUT if you are the 1000th in each stage, why would you be in Group A?

Do the stages rank out of ALL of the players? (in which case which players - everyone who plays RR3 or just the potential 3997 max that could have done the 4 stages).

[maths teacher]