Show Dropped Rounds and Tied Places on an Agreed Game Scoreboard — Free
A drop-lowest-round rule can hide both the discarded evidence and a tie. Print each retained total with the removed rounds, competition place and dense rank instead of silently inventing a winner.
The proof surface
Turn-count fairness does not calculate an agreed drop-lowest-round scoring rule, tied competition places and dense ranks.
InputPlayer code | round one points | round two points | round three points; lowest-scoring rounds dropped (0–2)
Rare deviceTurn-count fairness does not calculate an agreed drop-lowest-round scoring rule, tied competition places and dense ranks.
Output artifactTied retained-total groups plus complete labeled working
Cost$0 local core · no account, card, paid key or subscription · filing proposal has no checkout
Sample, not your facts: Invented records: Maple player | 8 | 12 | 10; Oak player | 9 | 13 | 9; Pine player | 7 | 11 | 8. Lowest-scoring rounds dropped (0–2) = 1; expected Tied retained-total groups: 1 tied total groups. These are not quotations, verified observations or personal evidence.
Before using the discard-round score stubs
Use this scoreboard only after the group agrees that higher points are better, exactly three rounds are scored, and the stated number of numerically lowest rounds is discarded. It is not a fairness assessment or a recommendation to change rules after seeing results. Player codes keep a shared link non-sensitive. All three scores stay visible, including penalties. Equal totals share a place: the app exposes competition ranking, which leaves gaps after ties, and dense ranking, which does not. Neither is a tie-break. If the game has team bonuses, unequal rounds or a special elimination rule, this narrow scorebook is not the official scorer.
Why the flat version breaks
A dropped round disappears from the audit
Showing only totals makes a transcribed point or a wrong discard hard to find. This scorebook leaves all round values and chosen discard positions in the working. Changing the setting visibly recomputes every player. A prettier total is not evidence that the new rule was agreed; keep a dated note of the game’s actual rule separately.
Competition and dense ranks are mixed
After a two-person first-place tie, competition rank advances to third but dense rank advances to second. Printing an unlabeled number lets participants read whichever interpretation suits them. Both names are explicit here, and neither counts as a tie-break. Tied group count differs again from tied-player count, which is reported as additional context rather than conflated with the headline.
Penalties are handled by absolute size
Lowest numerical score is not the same as largest magnitude. With negative points the distinction is especially important. This model follows the stated numerical ordering consistently and never assumes a penalty should be erased. If your actual game defines a different drop convention, preserve its score sheet and use a matching scorer rather than relabeling this output as official.
How to work the discard-round score stubs
Agree the scoring convention before entry
State higher-is-better, three rounds and the number of dropped scores before copying any totals. Scores must be whole points between minus and plus one million. Zero is an actual score, not a missing-round placeholder. Enter each player once with a non-sensitive unique code; incomplete rows are rejected. If two rounds share a lowest score, the earlier round is marked discarded first for display, but swapping equal values cannot change the retained total.
Keep the discarded evidence visible
Sort each player’s three scores by numerical value and original round position, then discard the chosen zero, one or two lowest scores. The row working names the retained and discarded round numbers. This avoids the common error of counting all three scores and subtracting a conveniently chosen round later. The setting applies equally to every player and cannot be secretly customized to make one participant’s score more favorable.
Calculate totals and both rank conventions
Add the retained whole points exactly and sort totals descending. Competition place equals one plus the number of players with a strictly higher total. Dense rank equals one plus the number of distinct strictly higher totals. Count each total held by two or more players as one tied group. Row values are retained point totals, while the headline counts tied groups; these are different units and must not be added together.
Resolve ties under the real game agreement
Inspect tied rows and the original scoring sheet before any award or next-round decision. Equal totals remain equal here. Input order only determines how tied rows are displayed, not who wins. If the group has a pre-agreed tie-break, apply it outside this tool with its own evidence. The copyable reading and optional filing prototype preserve the drop rule, both rank names and the boundary so the scoreboard does not become a misleading winner announcement.
What the discard-round score stubs keeps distinct
Question
Before
Check this working
A dropped round disappears from the audit
Showing only totals makes a transcribed point or a wrong discard hard to find. This scorebook leaves all round values and chosen discard positions in the working. Changing the setting visibly recomputes every player. A prettier total is not evidence that the new rule was agreed; keep a dated note of the game’s actual rule separately.
Keep the discarded evidence visible
Competition and dense ranks are mixed
After a two-person first-place tie, competition rank advances to third but dense rank advances to second. Printing an unlabeled number lets participants read whichever interpretation suits them. Both names are explicit here, and neither counts as a tie-break. Tied group count differs again from tied-player count, which is reported as additional context rather than conflated with the headline.
Calculate totals and both rank conventions
Penalties are handled by absolute size
Lowest numerical score is not the same as largest magnitude. With negative points the distinction is especially important. This model follows the stated numerical ordering consistently and never assumes a penalty should be erased. If your actual game defines a different drop convention, preserve its score sheet and use a matching scorer rather than relabeling this output as official.
Resolve ties under the real game agreement
The discard-round score stubs replaces this named manual reconciliation, not source verification or the responsible human's decision.
Run it on the samples, right here
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Agreed-rule score rehearsal only: no automatic winner, fairness judgment or rule change. Verify the source scores and resolve any tie under the group’s pre-agreed game rules before awarding a result.
Data note: This discard-round score stubs calculates in the tab from Player code | round one points | round two points | round three points. No input-collection endpoint, AI request or file upload is built into it. Drafts may be saved locally; explicit input-state links and optional external formatting can disclose the records. Use non-sensitive codes and clear the draft when finished.
Go deeper: the companion app files the same reading as a punched ticket stubs
The article demo above runs without limits. The companion app keeps a local history, exports the rows as CSV, prints the discard-round score stubs reading, and holds your drafts on this device — one complete free app run; the proposed $4 one-time filing layer is not for sale.
Keep the complete discard-round score stubs answer free; optional filing proposes its boundary-preserving print, row-and-summary CSV and five local reading summaries. The $4 one-time prototype is not for sale; another calculation remains free in the article demo.
Agreed-rule score rehearsal only: no automatic winner, fairness judgment or rule change. Verify the source scores and resolve any tie under the group’s pre-agreed game rules before awarding a result.
What this is built on
Declared local method: Add the retained whole points exactly and sort totals descending. Competition place equals one plus the number of players with a strictly higher total. Dense rank equals one plus the number of distinct strictly higher totals. Count each total held by two or more players as one tied group. Row values are retained point totals, while the headline counts tied groups; these are different units and must not be added together.
Every sample code, measurement, date, price, fingerprint and scenario is invented. Artifact checks do not verify reader data, policies, actual files, tickets, votes or health/accessibility outcomes.
SciPy rankdata documentation, fetched 2026-10-01, distinguishes competition (min) and dense ranking. This scorebook applies those conventions to descending retained totals; it does not use the SciPy library.
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Before: a tidy total concealed discarded rounds and rank conventions. After: retained points, removed rounds and both tie-preserving ranks are inspectable on each score stub.
Three worked readings, with different inputs
Sample A — typical inputs
Maple player | 8 | 12 | 10
Oak player | 9 | 13 | 9
Pine player | 7 | 11 | 8
After dropping one lowest score, Maple keeps 12 + 10 = 22, Oak keeps 13 + 9 = 22, and Pine keeps 11 + 8 = 19. There is one tied total group, containing two players. Competition places are 1, 1, 3; dense ranks are 1, 1, 2. The scoreboard prints both conventions and does not break the tie by whichever player was entered first.
Sample B — changed plan
Harbor player | 4 | 6 | 9
Orchard player | 3 | 7 | 10
Birch player | 6 | 8 | 10
The retained totals are 15, 17 and 18, so no total group is tied. Sorting puts Birch above Orchard above Harbor under the explicitly chosen higher-is-better model. The original three scores and the dropped score remain beside each total. If your game awards lower totals as better, do not use this convention and pretend its ordering is appropriate; agree a suitable rule before calculating.
Dropping the numerically lowest score removes −5 or −4. Both players retain −4 and form one tied group. The parser allows negative whole points because some games use penalties, but the app does not infer the game’s rules. Dropping the largest absolute penalty instead of the lowest numerical score would be a different calculation and must not be substituted without agreement.
Optional AI formatting, never the calculation
Manual entry completes this discard-round score stubs for free without signup. If available to you, the free AI Studio interface linked in the sources may format fictional or non-sensitive notes; external access may require an account. No API key or AI call is built into this tool. Free-tier content may be used to improve products. Review each cell and transcribe it to the labeled row schema; do not paste the JSON object into the row box.
Format only these fictional or non-sensitive notes for a discard-round score stubs. Return strict JSON shaped as {"rows": [{"label": "string", "cells": ["string", "string", "string"]}], "setting": "string"}. The columns are Player code | round one points | round two points | round three points; the setting is Lowest-scoring rounds dropped (0–2). Keep all supplied strings and quantities exactly; do not calculate, infer missing entries, invent dates or add advice. If any required value is missing, return an empty rows array and ask me for it separately. I will verify every cell against my source and manually transcribe rows using vertical bars before running the local calculator.
An AI response is not executed, fetched or trusted as a result. Missing values remain questions; the strict local parser checks the rows you actually enter.