[blml] IMP-scales for 2/3/4 boards

[Tony Musgrove]

With due respect, garbage,

I know that in large matchpointed pairs events
in Sydney, the placings are decided by fiat to
0.1 matchpoints in 1700 (or more)

Tony (Sydney)




At 12:46 AM 9/02/2007, you wrote:
>Tony Musgrove wrote:
> > I fail to understand why VPs are necessarily integers.  MPs
> > seem to be infinitely divisible.  Herman's Bastille system
> > which my scoring programs have adopted for cross imps
> > calculations allow imps to be a continuous variable.  With
> > computers doing all the marking these days, WTP
> >
> > Tony (Sydney)
> >
>
>I used to be of the same opinion as you, Tony, but there are three
>reasons why integers are to be preferred:
>
>a) the players can calculate these scores for themselves, which is a
>huge attraction point for such tournaments (as long as the computer
>can also score them for those for who the method is too complex)
>
>b) bridge is not a precise sport, and even precise sports such as
>javelin throwing have a "unit" (and no, that is not 1cm, it is
>actually 2cm)
>
>c) when issueing weighted scores, and some other adjusted scores, it
>is interesting to know that awarding 25% or 33% (or even 3S+1 or 3S+2)
>actually yields the same outcome.
>
>And yes, I do mean that these integer scores are the final ones. If in
>the end there is a tie, then the contestants should be ranked equal.
>
>Do you know the story of the swimming gold medal (I should look up the
>exact dates) where a gold was awarded on a thousandthst of a second.
>Later measurements revealed that the winner's lane was a millimeter
>shorter than his opponent and the silver winner had actually swam
>faster? Since then, all swimming times have been rounded to a one
>hundredth, and if they are equal, the places and medals are shared.
>
>--
>Herman DE WAEL
>Antwerpen Belgium
>http://www.hdw.be
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