[lycier]

I never open it, don't know if it is normal.

[barmar]

 lycier, on 2016-April-18, 03:42, said:

I never open it, don't know if it is normal.

Since about a month ago, if you're not logged in when a tournament ends, so you can't get the popup results, BBO sends you mail with the results. When we added challenges, they were included in this. So if you finish a challenge first, and you're not logged in when the other person finishes, you'll get the result in mail.

[lycier]

Hi Barmar :

Would you help me?
There is " BBO's 15th Birthday " on News Feed, I have no way to open its link, so I would ask you give me its link in your reply. Many thanks.

[diana_eva]

 lycier, on 2016-April-20, 01:43, said:

Hi Barmar :

Would you help me?
There is " BBO's 15th Birthday " on News Feed, I have no way to open its link, so I would ask you give me its link in your reply. Many thanks.

http://webutil.bridg...tch.php?id=3334

[lycier]

Diana_eva, now I am glad to open it, how wonderful " Brief History of BBO ". Thanks.

[heyrocky]

It isn't a crucial bug, but when I opened the new version and clicked on the VuGraph button this afternoon, I found the display below:

 Screenshot 2016-04-24 15.55.18.png (36.29K)
Number of downloads: 4

(Clicking on it shows a bigger image, at least on my Mac. I rarely, if ever, post images, obviously...)

It should be needless to say, but when I enter a room, there is more than one kibitzer. When I return to the table list after being at a table (which is probably legacy code), the number of kibitzers is more accurate.

Rich

[diana_eva]

 heyrocky, on 2016-April-24, 14:01, said:

It isn't a crucial bug, but when I opened the new version and clicked on the VuGraph button this afternoon, I found the display below:

Screenshot 2016-04-24 15.55.18.png

(Clicking on it shows a bigger image, at least on my Mac. I rarely, if ever, post images, obviously...)

It should be needless to say, but when I enter a room, there is more than one kibitzer. When I return to the table list after being at a table (which is probably legacy code), the number of kibitzers is more accurate.

Rich

I can't see your image, but if the vugraph was Bridge Winners Challenge Match, that's not a real vugraph. It's an online match artificially linked on vugraph to make it easier for kibs to join it. That 1 kibitzer is the vugraph operator. As soon as you click the Join button you are taken to the real match, which has more kibs.

[1eyedjack]

I expect that old news feeds remain available to view, if you know the URL, despite that they no longer are linked from the main screen. I reckon that one of the tabs currently devoted to a news feed should be reassigned to a general "archived news feeds" link.

[barmar]

Old news articles can be found at

http://webutil.bridg...ews_taglist.php

It's cumbersome, so we're probably not likely to make a link to it from the main application, but we don't have a problem sharing it when requested.

[smerriman]

How do the daylong tournaments actually work? I've entered them several times and was assuming other people played the same hands; but having just played the Total Points daylong, I had a look at the top scorer and discovered they won because they were served up two grand slam deals, and I wasn't, which seems a bit bizarre.

[barmar]

 smerriman, on 2016-May-16, 01:15, said:

How do the daylong tournaments actually work? I've entered them several times and was assuming other people played the same hands; but having just played the Total Points daylong, I had a look at the top scorer and discovered they won because they were served up two grand slam deals, and I wasn't, which seems a bit bizarre.

Each board number randomly selects among 25 different hands for each player.

This reduces problems with cheating, since a friend could tell you about their boards, but most of your boards will be different.

[smerriman]

I can see it helps with cheating, but it also makes the tournament rather pointless, does it not? You can't say one person should rank higher than another just because they got dealt a better hand.

[barmar]

The expectation is that it will even out -- some players will get a better hand on board 1, other players get a better hand on board 2, and so on.

People play rubber bridge for money, which is highly dependent on who gets good hands.

[42krunner]

 barmar, on 2016-May-17, 09:19, said:

The expectation is that it will even out -- some players will get a better hand on board 1, other players get a better hand on board 2, and so on.

People play rubber bridge for money, which is highly dependent on who gets good hands.

Huh? Mean reversion doesn't happen in eight boards.

[barmar]

 42krunner, on 2016-May-21, 21:35, said:

Huh? Mean reversion doesn't happen in eight boards.

No, but maybe across all the tournaments you play over time.

[42krunner]

 barmar, on 2016-May-22, 14:26, said:

No, but maybe across all the tournaments you play over time.

"In the long run we are all dead." -John Maynard Keynes

[bbstar]

Two suggestions.

* Announcing the Free daylong tournament results should be more user friendly. Currently a "mail" is sent. This seems like a hack. It also means that If I log on, I cannot do anything else before reading/deleting my mail/mailbox. I cannot even logoff.
However on the right there are 3 tabs: 1. News, 2. Who's online, 3. Results. I suggest showing tournament results in one of those tabs on the right.
* If I am idle from BBO for 1 hour, then BBO displays a warning message "BBO thinks you are away". Why is there a sound alert with the message? I think the message is really low-priority one, if i don't click "OK" nothing bad happens. Please remove the sound from the message.

[smerriman]

 barmar, on 2016-May-17, 09:19, said:

The expectation is that it will even out -- some players will get a better hand on board 1, other players get a better hand on board 2, and so on.

People play rubber bridge for money, which is highly dependent on who gets good hands.

True. But I guess the difference is in rubber bridge you're competing against your opponents at the table, so the strategy is a bit different.

With MPs or IMPs, every hand averages out to 0, so it doesn't matter which hands you play and they can be split up like in the tournaments without affecting the outcome much.

If playing TP in true duplicate (with everyone playing the same hands), it's very similar to IMPs, except the risks and rewards are weighted differently. When people play different hands though, it no longer works due to the lack of a 0 average.

Perhaps there is a way to calculate a weighted average so that you're still playing TP strategy, but in a way that gives everyone a chance of combined success? I guess that's basically turning it into IMPs, but..

(Eg, your score for a hand is the difference between the score for your contract and the median score for the hand - a mix of MPs, IMPs, but with TP weights.)

[barmar]

 bbstar, on 2016-June-08, 00:13, said:

Two suggestions.

* Announcing the Free daylong tournament results should be more user friendly. Currently a "mail" is sent. This seems like a hack. It also means that If I log on, I cannot do anything else before reading/deleting my mail/mailbox. I cannot even logoff.

This is done for any tournament that you play in and completes while you're logged out, not just daylongs. If you don't feel like checking the results now, just close the mail window.

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However on the right there are 3 tabs: 1. News, 2. Who's online, 3. Results. I suggest showing tournament results in one of those tabs on the right.

Reasonable suggestion, IMHO.

[mink]

 bbstar, on 2016-June-08, 00:13, said:

Two suggestions.

* Announcing the Free daylong tournament results should be more user friendly. Currently a "mail" is sent. This seems like a hack. It also means that If I log on, I cannot do anything else before reading/deleting my mail/mailbox. I cannot even logoff.

There is other mail apart from tourney results. Users want to know about mail in their mailbox then the log in. If you are not interested, you can get rid of the message with one click and later invoke the mail when it is more appropriate for you.

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However on the right there are 3 tabs: 1. News, 2. Who's online, 3. Results. I suggest showing tournament results in one of those tabs on the right.

Tourney results are already shown under "My BBO - Hands and Results". They are not such important to grant them a new tab on the right.

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* If I am idle from BBO for 1 hour, then BBO displays a warning message "BBO thinks you are away". Why is there a sound alert with the message? I think the message is really low-priority one, if i don't click "OK" nothing bad happens. Please remove the sound from the message.

Maybe the BBO window is minimized when the message occurs - then the sound is really useful if you like to stay logged in.