[blml] adjudication

[Nigel]

[Eric Landau]
And we can, and routinely do, improve on that by denoting marginal
inclusions with '+' and '-' signs.  So when we (speaking for the
first kind of player) see a 1NT range of "15-17", we expect fewer
than 1/4 of (otherwise qualified) 14-counts to be opened with 1NT.
When we see "14-17", we expect more than 3/4 of 14-counts to be
opened 1NT.  "14+-17" denotes something in between.  That is far more
useful and informative than writing "14-17" for all three cases.

[nige1]
Great! Another straw man :)

Most players agree that is a fair attempt at honest disclosure to 
declare a *14-17 HCP* as *14+-17 HCP* if you open few 14 HCP hands.

I heartily approve of the practice, and fully accept that it is much 
more useful and helpful than any unqualified range.

I slightly prefer the notation *(14)15-17 HCP* proposed, I think, by 
Tim West-Meads.

I still feel it is wrong to declare that range as 15-17 HCP :)