Features

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Racine's tie-breaking system is designed to ensure fair distribution of items among participants. Here's how it works:

Item Selection:

• Each participant creates their wish list by selecting the items they're interested in
• Participants can assign a priority to each item in their list
• This priority will be used to resolve situations where an item is wanted by multiple people
• Items "without priority" are assigned a random priority by the system (lower than the least prioritized item already defined)

Priority levels:

• each participant has their own personal scale of priorities for the items they selected;
• they cannot create custom extra levels (the administrator cannot add “Priority 6”, “Priority 7”, etc.);
• when a user has, for example, chosen 5 items, they will rank them from Priority 1 (strongest) to Priority 5 (lowest), with no duplicates: it is not possible to set two items to Priority 1;
• the “no priority” option corresponds to a weaker wish than the numbered priorities; it is still taken into account, but the algorithm will generally favour items with priority 1, 2, 3, etc.

Setting all items to Priority 1 is therefore not recommended: the algorithm works best when everyone uses the full range of priorities to express what really matters to them.

Distribution Process:

The system works in rounds, where each participant will receive one item per round based on their priorities and the compensation system until their item selection is exhausted.

Conflict Resolution and Compensation System:

When multiple people want the same item with the same priority level:

• It compares compensation points
• In case of equal points, a random selection is made

The winner's points are reset to zero

Other participants receive two compensation points

Transparency and Traceability:

Participants have access to a detailed summary of the distribution where each decision is recorded and explained.

Even if they did not take part in a previous distribution, all group members can see who each item was allocated to once the distribution is finished.

Optional: Value System:

• Participants can optionally assign a monetary value to items
• In this case, each participant is assigned a quota based on their share in the inheritance
• The system then ensures no participant exceeds their total value quota
• Items exceeding a participant's quota are deferred to the end of the distribution; if no one has obtained them by then, they are subject to a second round without considering quotas

Distribution by item types (tags):

Currently, the system does not guarantee a perfectly “fair by item type” distribution (for example, the same number of pieces of furniture or decorative objects for each person).

However, you can get closer to this by using the following approach:

• organize your items into tags (e.g. “furniture”, “decorations”, “paintings”, etc.);
• run a first distribution limited to one tag (for example, only furniture);
• then run a second distribution for another tag, and so on.

This way you keep more control over distribution by item category, while still benefiting from Racine’s priority and compensation system.