[blml] Multiple Teams : Fouled Board

[Wayne Burrows]

On 08/11/06, Herman De Wael <herman at hdw.be> wrote:
> Hello Steve,
>
> this is something that the CoC should address.
>
> I have often suggested that standard CoC should contain a paragraph
> about what to do if on one of the tables of a match no score can be
> obtained, or if the two scores obtained are not on comparable deals.
>
> It is my opinion that one should resolve this in the following manner:
>
> -for every board played, at both tables, a par score is determined,
> and this score is deducted from the table score. The two differences
> are then added and the sum translated into IMPs.
> On every normal board, the exact value of the par score is
> unimportant, since it will cancel out with the same par score at the
> other table.
> On a fouled board, the 2 par scores can be determined only by
> difference - thus, if aboard is fouled by the vulnerability only,
> scores of +650 and +420 can be compared and the difference be given as
> 1IMP.

It is extremely simplistic to assume that +650 vul is 1 IMP better
than +420 not vul.

Wayne