Posted by dahsdebater on 7/1/2015 4:44:00 PM (view original):
Again, if you're smart enough to make it exponential, then yes.  Read my prior post...

Lots (LOTS) of coaches seem to expect it to be x% per letter grade, linearly.  Which obviously doesn't make any sense.

Serves me right for responding in confusion without checking the context

I had always assumed that whatever the "percentage" is, it works like this (for simplicity sake, I am using 1 for a D prestige and 0.7 for the "percentage").

D = 1.0
C = 1.7
B = 2.4
A = 3.1

In the sample from before, let's say CV's are worth 100 points for a D prestige school, here is how I think it works:
School A = 10 * 310 = 3100 points
School B = 16 * 240 = 3840
School C = 25 * 170 = 4250

School C wins, server does not go down.  I could be wrong, I guess, but it seems like the most straightforward way to implement this.  Maybe the issue is terminology because it is not a true percentage difference between the grades.