Okay, what about Normalized Tournament Score then?
Normalization is a process where a set of values is mapped onto a standardized set of scores. A percentage is a normalization, for example, it puts everything into a range that is easily understood. The Walleye Central Ranking system does a very similar thing. Basically it looks at any tournament and maps the placement of the anglers into a range of 1 to 100, where 1 is first place and 100 is last place. Then we assign points to those values, which just to be confusing, we assign the value of 100 to the first place, and 0 to the last place. The way this is done is to simply calculate the slope of a line which has a y-value of 100 at the x-value of 1, and a y-value of 0 at the x-value of whatever the lowest placement of a tournament is. Then with that slope you can do a simple calculation that gives you the y-value of any placement in the tournament.
