I recently moved from NYC to Austin and have found the site
very useful to gauge the ballpark compatibility of various potential
partners. One of the most frustrating things about being a younger player
without a lot of master points is that the ACBL uses master points for all
bracketing. So typically when I go to a regional
and enter a bracketed Swiss we end up in a low bracket and win by a lot, which
isn't really fun for anyone (recently one older lady told our team after we had
one a low bracket Swiss only half-jokingly, "congratulations, don't come
back tomorrow"). For that reason, I would love to see some sort of
rating system catch on (even if they just decayed masterpoints for bracketing .
. .)
One bad thing about ratings I think is that if it ever
discourages people from playing bridge either when they are not 100% or with a
new partner etc. where they think they might underperform (I think OkBridge had this problem). One potential idea for
the future I think is to somehow separate club bridge out from tournament
bridge with the idea that club bridge is more like an "exhibition"
game and tournament bridge is more serious.
Shawn Drenning
Austin,
Texas
Here is
the game Shawn is referring to:
Fort Worth
Regional Saturday Swiss Bracket
5 03/24/18
1
86 8.16 5 2
58.32 Gary ANDERSON, Gerald
BARRETT, Shawn DRENNING, Jarek LANGER
2
65 6.12 5 5
51.99 Janet JORDAN, Jane
LARIMORE, Jacqueline MONTGOMERY, Laura NASH
3
63 4.59 5 5
53.15 Marjorie DEUTSCH, Letty
GAREK, William PEIFFER, Mary TRENTHAM
4
62 0.96 5 5 52.34
Barbara CLEMENTS, Richard CLEMENTS, Kenneth MACMORRAN, Sharon MACMORRAN
5
54 0.36 5 7
50.44 J FLETCHER, Clint
SCHUHMACHER, Jo SHAH, Sam SHAH
5
54 0.48 5 9
48.12 Connie BOOTH, Helen NELSON,
Mary STANTON, Anne WILLIAMS
7
36 0.24 5 5
53.31 Donna GIBBS, Jo HAMMETT,
Lin JONES, Joyce STONE
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