Can someone help me out with the table balancing done in MTT's?

Question

Gone through the Pokerstars table balancing article: https://www.pokerstars.com/help/articles/trn-table-balancing/10626/

I am considering two major factors while developing my own online poker table balancing algorithm:

• The number of times a player already moved from the table in a tournament, being a part of the table balancing algorithm.
• Player's relative position from the Big Blind position at the time of table break/balancing.

Now my concern is that whether I have to consider any more conditions (like an even distribution of player's stack sizes with respect to the other players' stacks at the table at the time of table break/merge, etc.) or the above-mentioned two factors will be enough?

Answer 1

Yes, those 2 factors should be sufficient for the overwhelming majority of cases. If you're currently developing the code for doing that, you should probably stick to those 2 factors anyway, in order to reduce complexity. Over time, if you really want, you can add other rules to that algorithm.

PS: In my experience, in live MTTs, usually only the relative-position is taken into account, in order not to over-complicate the process and/or save time doing it.