Arrow switches Are switches compulsory with 1 winner Mitchells?
#1
Posted 2011-February-15, 01:58
#2
Posted 2011-February-15, 04:08
#3
Posted 2011-February-15, 04:27
#4
Posted 2011-February-15, 07:29
As for tv, screw it. You aren't missing anything. -- Ken Berg
I have come to realise it is futile to expect or hope a regular club game will be run in accordance with the laws. -- Jillybean
#5
Posted 2011-February-15, 07:59
Joking aside, we try to teach people good practice here. Good practice has never been to have a single session Mitchell with one winner and no arrow-switch. No doubt there have been a number of Mitchells over the years that do not conform to good practice.
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#6
Posted 2011-February-15, 11:59
The director had decided that instead of displacing the N/S pairs for the 2 boards in a round, they would replace the NS pair for one board ans the EW pair for the other. I thought that this was very strange, but I was pleasantly surprised that the ACBL were implementing sinlge-winner games.
But it was not to be. There was no arrow-switch. That afternoon, overall results were derived from three completely separate fields -- NS, EW, and the two ladies who sat in both directions.
#7
Posted 2011-February-16, 20:42
More commonly, large club games are straight mitchells with no overall awards; only special events and sectional+ tournaments regularly combine across sections (more than 1 NS and more than 1 EW all lumped together) for overall awards.
#8
Posted 2011-February-16, 22:00
Section A: NS: A - 5 pairs, X - 1 pair, B - 4 pairs; EW: A - 4 pairs, X - 2 pairs, B - 4 pairs.
Section B: NS: B - 5 pairs, C - 4 pairs; EW: B - 7 pairs, C - 2 pairs.
Section D: NS: B - 3 pairs, C - 5 pairs; EW: B - 3 pairs; C - 5 pairs.
There was no section C.
I have no idea where the strata were divided, or if the strata in sections B and D were divided at the same place, or where the B stratum in section A fits in. I also have no idea how the TD would explain why she did it this way, unless it's "because I felt like it".
Note: the movement in all three cases was a two-winner (in the sections) Mitchell. The overalls were one-winner.
As for tv, screw it. You aren't missing anything. -- Ken Berg
I have come to realise it is futile to expect or hope a regular club game will be run in accordance with the laws. -- Jillybean
#9
Posted 2011-February-17, 04:44
For example, in the EBU I believe it is a breach of regulations to issue masterpoints for an unswitched Mitchell as though it were a one-winner movement, since the masterpoint handbook says
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#10
Posted 2011-February-17, 10:09
As near as I can figure, when ACBLScore computes overall scores, it treats the group of players it's given as having played a one-winner movement, even if they haven't, and computes a single overall winner in each stratum, plus second, third (and so on) places down as far as the masterpoint regs allow awarding of any masterpoints at all (i.e., 40% of the field get points). Also as near as I can figure, ACBL treats just about anything ACBLScore does as legal. Apparently they feel they don't need a regulation to cover - the fact that the ACBL BoD approved the use of the program (so the folks at HQ say, anyway) is sufficient.
As for tv, screw it. You aren't missing anything. -- Ken Berg
I have come to realise it is futile to expect or hope a regular club game will be run in accordance with the laws. -- Jillybean
#11
Posted 2011-February-17, 10:59
blackshoe, on 2011-February-17, 10:09, said:
As near as I can figure, when ACBLScore computes overall scores, it treats the group of players it's given as having played a one-winner movement, even if they haven't, and computes a single overall winner in each stratum, plus second, third (and so on) places down as far as the masterpoint regs allow awarding of any masterpoints at all (i.e., 40% of the field get points). Also as near as I can figure, ACBL treats just about anything ACBLScore does as legal. Apparently they feel they don't need a regulation to cover - the fact that the ACBL BoD approved the use of the program (so the folks at HQ say, anyway) is sufficient.
The section awards are made to the 40% of the field. Overall awards go to fewer places via a complicated formula (2 places for 3 tables; 3 places for 4 tables; 4 places for 5-6 tables; 5 places for 7-9 tables; 6 places for 10 to some sifnificantly large number of tables) and only apply to ordinary club masterpoint games if there are 16 or more tables overall.
#12
Posted 2011-February-17, 13:09
--"we got deprived of our two slams in the last round by your stupid arrow switch"
--"the arrow switch cost us a N-S section top when we were suddenly compared against the E-W pairs." (This pair scored 22% on three boards in the last round with the arrow switch and of course feels that they would have crushed their opponents with the other cards. The masterpoints they got for third overall was more than first in a section half the size of the field would have paid.)
--"you know it's not fair and you're doing it anyway"
--"nobody anywhere in the world does this, you're the only one"
--"it always gives out fewer masterpoints" or "fewer pairs win masterpoints"
--"people will not come back if you continue to impose this silliness on us"
At the same time, every novice pair who asked me questions about it were happy to hear what the benefits were.
Those that did complain virtually always had had a sub-par game. The same players had very little to say when they were having a good game. The game slowly increased attendance, gaining about a table per game each year.
I have replied to the Unit President asking what the Board will do when the players demand polls on travelers vs pickups, skipping a table to avoid seeing boards twice, and giving no matchpoints for a score that loses by only 10. The Unit President was less than amused.
Please come back to the live game; I directed enough online during COVID for several lifetimes.
Bruce McIntyre,
#13
Posted 2011-February-17, 17:11
Sheesh.
As for tv, screw it. You aren't missing anything. -- Ken Berg
I have come to realise it is futile to expect or hope a regular club game will be run in accordance with the laws. -- Jillybean