Trophy Competitions
We are a small club, one (Wed night) game a week. We have just one Trophy competition, which is awarded to the top pair in the Club. The question is - how do we I idnetify that pair? I have set some criteria which I believe is fair but would like to hear opinions?. To qulaify the pair must have played at least 20 games over the year and must have played at least 10 games at N/S. . . . . Why? The vast majority of competitions we play are two winner comps and for most of the games, stronger pairs tend to play N/S; if a pair plays all their games at E/W they never play against the stronger pairs and so their overall average is not a true/fair reflection of their place.
We can't be the only Club in the Country with an AP's Comp can we - - - what do do?
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There are no regulations or set criteria for competitions like this - it is up to the club to decide what is best. Your point about which line is stronger is the wrong way around - if the stronger pairs play NS, it would be easier to win by playing EW.
Thanks for the reply Gordon - In my Club / in my experience, the stronger pairs tend to play N/S; and there is always a fight amongst members to get in the E/W seats bacuse they want to win and believe they stand a better chance competing against other (weaker) E/W players - I don't know but would be interested to know if that is the same at other clubs?
If you use Bridgewebs there are lots of configurable competitions types which can be arranged. Set min No’ of times played etc. (not sure about sitting direction though)
Typical link
https://www.bridgewebs.com/cgi-bin/bwor/bw.cgi?club=trafford&pid=table_competitions_255
Kind regards Steve
Thanks Steve - I do use BW and hope that my choices of options get me the fairest result
Well, I just make people play single winner movements for club competition nights. And don't worry too much about the imbalances to do with the same pairs largely sitting NS. We used to make pairs draw for random starting positions actually, that's another solution.
It occurs to me that ngs should give you a strength of field for both N/S and E/W and I suppose you could handicap on that basis. Although that would have the strange side effect that there would be less points in total available EW than NS. And I don't know if you could do it automatically, probably not.
Yes, your screenshot of competition data looks fine to me.
Kind regards Steve
I had misunderstood you as saying it the other way around.
I have the impression that at most clubs where there is a disparity, it's caused by people wanting to be NS for mobility reasons. At some clubs they may be the stronger players, at others not.