Sim Pairs and NGS
Hopefully a good place to post and that this has not been asked before.
would it not be better that the result taken for NGS purposes was from the national result rather than the club result in a sim pairs ?
Hopefully a good place to post and that this has not been asked before.
would it not be better that the result taken for NGS purposes was from the national result rather than the club result in a sim pairs ?
Comments
No, because the field may be very different in a small club to nationally.
From the NGS full guide https://www.ebu.co.uk/documents/miscellaneous/ngs/full-guide.pdf :
events?
For Simultaneous Pairs events that are scored both at the local club and
nationwide, it is reasonably obvious that we should take one scoring rather
than both or else we would get a double weighting for the event. So, which
scoring should we take?
Local factors at the club can have a significant effect on the National scoring,
especially so if a two-winner Mitchell movement is used. Some clubs can have
stronger fields sitting North-South than East-West and some the other way
round. This can happen without intention but by default, and for different
reasons. Because we use a Strength Of Opponents Factor for duplicate pairs
movements, the club score rather than the nationwide score provides the
appropriate scoring for grading.
Similarly, for multi-section events played at multiple venues, we take the
scores for each section separately rather than the combined section scores.
For multi-section events at a single venue, such as EBU’s championship pairs,
we take the overall score for the event. However qualifying stages and finals
are treated separately.