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>There's complex interplay of these factors, so it's not possible to just make a simple formula for a theoretical "tenpai score".
I used to meticulously count suji and peidora to compare against a big EV table in my head to figure out if I should oikake riichi against someone. I spent a lot of time designing and memorizing that system, but it was still rather cumbersome and led to me playing sanma even slower than yonma at times.
But after watching this guy (https://www.youtube.com/live/ADjKyZcq6tg?si=40Jo5ysFOtIEB8Cn) play 7-person mahjong while barely paying attention and eating chips, I realized that the best players in world must always rely on their intuition to make good decisions, and there's no way to combine all of these factors:
>point situation
>remaining rounds
>hand value
>number of remaining winning tiles
>likelihood of your wait being discarded by others
>remaining turns in the hand
>whether the others are tenpai
>whether you have yaku
>whether you are dealer
into an unfailing push-fold system. Now even if I know and follow a wide variety of principles when playing, I'll always trust myself to break them in special situations. It's saved me from bullshit deal-ins many times and has allowed me to play much faster.
This is probably obvious to people who always "play by feel nya", but I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum, and I generally want to play in a more predicatable and reliable way.