Go back and read the original problem. There is a specification given. Debating whether another specification may be better (eg do points won by matter) is irrelevant, we are given the spec. There are 6 parts to the spec. The original poster claims to know how to do 5 parts of it correctly, and shows enough code to demonstrate that. The problem is that condition 3 is hard. The question is therefore, "How do I handle condition 3?"

Your answer pointed the original poster at different ways to do the bits that could already be done. It offered no help on condition 3. Therefore it did not address the question asked

My answer explained how to calculate that condition. I did not do the rest of the spec because I believe that the original poster can do that. Plus it is boring work.

If you wish to continue defend your answer on the grounds that it demonstrates that you have the "creativity" to answer the question that wasn't asked, and not answer the question that was, well, I don't quite know what to say to that. The situation pretty much speaks for itself.

Anyways we're now going in circles. Unless you have a response that breaks new ground, I won't be responding again in this thread.

In reply to Re^6: Adding Special Rules to Sort by tilly
in thread Adding Special Rules to Sort by ctfishman

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