Re: Four Teams in an Extended Team Match


"Michael Angelo Ravera" <maravera@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:dcc7980f-4121-45cd-80fd-38054285e4fe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Sep 16, 5:47 am, sawdust <woodch...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 15, 11:17 pm, Terry Faust <m...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If you have four teams in an extended team match played as a round
> robin (each team plays the other three teams a full 24 board match),
> what is the best way to determine the final ranking. Won-Loss record?,
> ties decided by quotient? or head-to-head?, convert somehow to VPs?
> How about five, six or more teams? Playing in ACBLand.

Win-loss is terrible for a small round robin, since there will only
be three matches for each team.

Victory points, based on the imp differential is good, but it
too has a flaw if you have random deals. If every match uses
different deals, then one match for one pair of teams may
be very flat, yet another pair of teams sees a swingy set
of hands.

So best is probably victory points, with the same hands
in the matches. If 4 the teams are playing in the same
area, this is simple to do. Break it into sets of 6. Teams
1 & 2 play boards 1-12 in the first half, while teams 3 & 4
are playing boards 13-24. Then swap the boards between
matches.

This way both matches are most comparable.

John

No matter which way you score it, I would have everyone play the same
boards! The method that you indicate can be used for shuffled or
machine.


I agree that the same boards make thsi sort of compeition much better. I'm not convinced that a vipping the scores is always as superior as some of the correspondents suggest. It may depend a bit on the relative strengths of the teams - if two are much stronger than the other two then parhaps you would want their head-to head battle decide the outcome of the tournament - if one of the poorer teams has a couple of random good boards agianst one of the stronger teams this may decide the tournament (which may or may not be a good thing)

The traditional way (Bermuda Bowl etc) of deciding serious Bridge events is head to head. At the least I think ateam that records three wins out of three might be the winners what ever the Vps (Crockfords Final - EBU teams of Four had such a rule for the final eight team round-robin - 7/7 wins = winners - but no more)

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