ATC - thanks and the millionaire is fixed.
CanUGetThisout - My formula/site has no problem with the Big Blind Ante structure. Ironically, for the exact reason akashenk laid out why it would. My formula does focus on Orbit Cost which is the amount a player must blindly put into the pot for one orbit of the button around the table. A big blind ante tournament nicely adheres to that so no tweaking my formula necessary.
The jury is really still out on comparing BBA to regular, but when it comes to the Venetian (the only series thus far that has similiar enough tournaments to do a comparison) regular is better:
#32 BBA -
https://www.venetian.com/content/dam...BA_1Day_v2.pdf
#52 Regular -
https://www.venetian.com/content/dam...SuperStack.pdf
Both $600, Both 1 Day, both called SuperStack, both starting with $20k. Looking at just the Orbit Costs the BBA appears better:
Level 6: BBA=1000, Reg=1100
Level 10: BBA=2500, Reg=2500
Level 14: BBA=5600, Reg=7600
Level 18: BBA=15000, Reg=19000
However, that's not fair because...the regular tournament has 40 minute levels the BBA has 30. My method/formula handles this nicely with the 100% Minutes variable. For the BBA it is 570 (19 levels * 30 minutes\level) and for the regular it is 720 (18 levels * 40 minutes\level). That variable adjusts the formula for different starting stack sizes and level lengths.
If the level lengths had been equal BBA would have been better, but because each level in the regular tournament is 10 minutes longer the regular is better. In the end, the #32 BBA gets 77 S-Points and #52 regular gets 92. I would deem that a signficant diference.