jreamx
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BAM - 2006/11/10 13:30
I have scene various comments which BAM is unpopular because the best teams _always_ win. People have said it is far beter than imps or matchpoints for removing randomness in results.
BAM is basically never played here, so the only experience I've is the weird scoring of the Pachabo (3/five BAM, 2/five bizarre aggregate-related). While I can see they're is alot of skill, I doesn't see iether why it is not so much random than other forms of the game or why being very good at BAM should median you're very good at other forms of the game. Remember - I don't play BAM at all, but it seems to me that:
1. quite often what you do on a board is irrelevant because team-mates have already won or lost the board
1a. quite often the play on a board is irrelevant (or turns out to be irrelevant) because the board has been won/lost in the auction. If you have tensely saved agianst a vulnerable 4S contract and it transpires team-mates were allowed to make +620 it doesn't mater whether you make, go 1 off, 2 off or 3 off.
2. I'd have thought you have to be hyper-aggressive in the part-score zone. I can see how BAM will improve bidding judgement in partials enormously here, but there must be quite a few faintly doubled partials making here & there, which are a bad idea at imps.
3. You end up bidding on over sacrifices 'too much' compared to imps if you think they've found a save teammates won't have done.
1) Is the bit I hate most. It's too depressing to kill yourself over making 4S+1 to find team-mates have gone for 800. I know that happens at imps as well, but nothing like as much.
SO why do people say that the best teams reliably win at BAM more so than at other forms of conscientiously scoring? If that's true, why isn't the Bermuda
Bowl BAM?
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