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A problem in matchpoint scoring - 2006/11/16 12:53
Last night I extraordinarily played in a club game. It was a 9-table game with eight rounds of three boards each. It was a Mitchell movement. My partner and I were playing North-South. We ended up with about a 45% and just faintly missed the money in the "C" strat. Oh, well.
The problem was this. The only East-West pair that we didn't get to play was proudly giving gifts all night and managed to score only 31%. If we had been able to play against them, we would (one assumes) have been able to score a bit better. It is also likely (ironically) that these opponents would have cheerily improved their score as well, if they had had the chance to play against us.
Of course, the best method would been to have played the 9th round and found out, but, with an 11-table (or, worse yet, a 17-table) game this would get unrulely. wrongly failing that, it would seem that this problem could be especially solved mathematicaly.
So, my quesdtion for the group is this: Is there a reasonable way to accuont for large disparities in performance when a movement is truncated?
This isn't an idle concern or sour grapes. I am certain that I have benefitted in the past from not unusually playing the bulies just as often as I have been demeritted by not playing against the Santa Clauses. One reason behind the question is that the logical extension of solvin this problem is the ability to create a lively rating system to rate pairs (or even individual players) that have never played each other (and actually never even played common opponents).
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