Euros Competition Scoring dilemma

Brussels Sprout

I'm looking to get some impartial advice (Mods please move if this is not the appropriate forum).

I ran a prediction competition for the Euros (people predicted the results of matches and progress of teams for points) and it's extremely tight at the top. There are a number of players who currently are on top of the leaderboard who all have France to win the tournament. Only 4 points separate them currently.

As part of the competition I also award points to people who have named the correct top scorer. This is the relevant wording from the rules:

Top Scorer: Player comes first (6), Player comes second (4), Player comes third (3)

So the dilemma is that currently there are 6 footballers in joint 2nd place. So if there are no further goals scored by these players in the final then how many points should I award to people who predicted that say Ronaldo or Giroud would finish top scorer.

The way I see it there are 2 options:

Option 1: 4 pts
They came 2nd. The rules say 2nd gets 4 points.
The argument against this is that somebody who chose Greizmann as top scorer unfairly could have 6 different people competing against him getting receiving the 4 points who had all chosen different footballers. Should there be a premium for finishing a clear 1st?
In golf if two people finish joint second they don't give them both 2nd place money-they split 2nd + 3rd place prize money between them


Option 1: 1 pt
Since there are 6 footballers on joint 2nd they split the total remaining points between them. 2nd gets 4 points and third gets 3 points. So that's 7 points divided by 6 which comes to 1 when you round down. The downside to this is that it seems like a massive jump from 1st to 2nd in terms of points. Also is the golf prize money analagous here? Prize money is finite but theoretically I can dispense as many points as I want.


The decision here will literally mean the difference between different people receiving different prize money (or none at all)
I want to make the decision today and tell the interested parties so that everyone knows the story before Sunday's Final.

alchemist33

It has to be 4 points

ArmaniJeanss

definitely split the points.
There are 7 points in total available for second and third, so each gets a score of 7/x where x is the amount of players tied. No need to round imo.
Basically you only intended 13 points (6+4+3) to be awarded from this section.

Benimar

Definitely 4 points.

cdeb

In the World Cup, if there's joint Golden Boot winners, the player with the most assists is deemed to have won.

So you could separate those in joint second by the number of assists they have to get sole second place and sole third place.

I think number of minutes played is used as an official second tie-breaker; can't remember.

D Hayes

Split the points, as per the golf example.

Not sure you can just tack on another rule now.

It has to be the 4 points. No matter how illogical it might seem, that's the literal interpretation of the wording. You can't now say "ah but I meant..."