There's no Hard Maths involved. Believe me, I've done some hard maths (although not too hard) and this isn't it.
A critical success beats a special, normal, failure or fumble.
A special success beats a normal, failure or fumble.
A normal success beats a failure of fumble.
A failure beats a fumble.
Simple, assuming you can work out whether you've succeeded/failed/fumbled/specialed/criticaled.
If you get the same result (i.e. both Fumble, both Fail, both succeed normally, both special or both critical) then you have to work out who has done better.
I prefer "succeeded by most", other people prefer "highest roll", they are the same. Normally it doesn't take much calculation to work out "succeeded by most" and no calculation to work out "highest roll".
So, where's the problem?
I'm not sure about the loser's level of success having an effect on the victor's levelm of success as I don't have BRP yet. presumably that is to differentiate a critical vs special from a critical vs failure, for example. It's pretty irrelevant if that's the case as BRP doesn't have any meaningful rules for effects based on differences between levels of success.
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