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With this option the procedure is applied looking for γi but setting ν=0 and θ=1 as in the original Zermelo paper. The γi are in the 'Z Pts' column. The column 'ZN Pts' is the same of 'Z Pts' but with the greatest γi set to 100. The method does not broken the tie in a round robin tournament and is not particularly useful in this case because the ranking is the same of score percentage. In Swiss systems it turn out to be much more useful. Option: Zermelo Score System Extended With this option a panel prompts the user to choose how to perform the calculations: The user may ask to find both parameters ν and θ or set one or both to some value. Reference [1]: On Extending the Bradley-Terry Model to Incorporate Within-Pair Order Effects, Roger R. Davidson and Robert J. Beaver Biometrics Vol. 33, No. 4 (Dec., 1977), pp. 693-702 74