New Season Competitions
The Summer online Accumulator Competitions will run as follows:
- Tuesday Matchpoints: fortnightly from 16th April to 20th August,
- Tuesday IMPs: fortnightly from 23rd April to 27th August (alternating with the Matchpoints competition),
- Thursday Matchpoints: weekly starting on 2nd May to end August.
- Saturday Matchpoints: weekly starting on 4th May to end August.
- Monday Matchpoints: weekly starting 6th May to end August.
We pay small monetary prizes to the winners of all these competitions, and in future these will be paid as credits into the players' BBO accounts.
Change in Scoring Method for Boards played versus Robots
As you know, if we have a half table, then we introduce a pair of BBO robots in our duplicate events. Players have the choice of playing the boards against the robots, or not. The scores on these boards do not count and are removed from the final results.
Starting with the beginning of the Summer competitions above, the club is changing the way we remove the scores on those boards.
Instead of setting the result on the board to “Average”, we will set the boards against the Robots to be “Not Played”.
This method is adopted by other major clubs in Scotland (including the New Melville) and is generally regarded as a fairer method than averaging, as it reduces the degree of bias.
Setting the boards to Not Played is achieved by deleting the robot pair from the event, which can only be done after the tournament has ended, outside the BBO system.
A consequence of this is that the results for the tournament as shown on BBO will NOT be the final results, and there will be some differences between BBO's provisional results and the final results shown on the Club's website.
Unfortunately, we have no way of correcting the BBO results, as the BBO system does not have the facility to delete the robot pair results in the way we want.
The final adjusted results, as posted on the club's website, will be used for all Masterpoint awards and Accumulator Competitions.
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