StevenG, on 2017-April-07, 05:57, said:
But we play MPs almost every session. The reason for multiple teams is so that people can play IMPs occasionally (and there's no demand for IMP pairs).
If only that were true everywhere.
Zelandakh, on 2017-May-05, 10:08, said:
I have always found it ironic that we feel the need to impose an artifical scale to flatten the effects after choosing a scoring method that was specifically designed to flatten the effect of the original scoring method. Perhaps we could just design "Intergalactic Mathpoints" with an even flatter curve and be done with it?
The definition of "ironic" as "very logical and expected" was so far down the list of meanings in my dictionary that I got bored and stopped reading.
Anyway, IMP+bonus points for winning a match will not be implemented, because people are familiar with VPS and they are popular.
barmar, on 2017-May-06, 11:20, said:
Lots of tournaments still do hand scoring for the matches, we only use the computer to convert from IMPs to VPs.
Swiss Teams used to be win-loss scoring, the switch to VPs was done to make big wins more significant.
In the ACBL this did not result in a valid contest, because the change was made while Swiss Team events still used hand-dealt boards. I assume that this no longer happens.
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