[Bbradley62]

Has there been a noticeable change in the rate with which players complete these tournaments since you've increased their availability? It appears to me that people are bailing more frequently, possibly because they can simply enter another one if they're not doing well in their current tournament. I see that one player (who stalled and then bailed while my partner played 4♠xx+1) completed only 4 of the 13 she entered in a 24-hour period. (During that same period, she played 18 MBC hands in 11 sittings.) Part of me would like to see players committed to tournaments they begin, but part of me is glad to see flaky players leave and be replaced by GIB.

[babalu1997]

Bbradley62, on 2011-May-06, 01:38, said:

Has there been a noticeable change in the rate with which players complete these tournaments since you've increased their availability? It appears to me that people are bailing more frequently, possibly because they can simply enter another one if they're not doing well in their current tournament. I see that one player (who stalled and then bailed while my partner played 4♠xx+1) completed only 4 of the 13 she entered in a 24-hour period. (During that same period, she played 18 MBC hands in 11 sittings.) Part of me would like to see players committed to tournaments they begin, but part of me is glad to see flaky players leave and be replaced by GIB.

Perhaps there is a change for those who use the web version, I think there is still a large number of active members on windows version and this info is not available to them.

I have seen people who state that they will not accept invitations from players below a minimum completion rate.

As for me, I accept invites with 75% percent and over completion, and when i am host, I accept players with 80% or more completion.

I have been invited by players with as low as 29% completion rate, and that is truly ridiculous, because as someone pointed up before the completion rate itself is biased upwards .

[Rain]

I only have anecdotal evidence so far. Note that none of our free tourneys currently require min completion rates to join, so there is no direct incentive to increase in TCR imo. In fact, quite the opposite - yes I think more players in free express are just bailing. I see finishes of 30-32 every tourney, when it's always filled (40 spots).

So clearly the remaining 8-10 players have bailed.

While they can then continue to join our other BBO free tourneys with no adverse effect, their individual TCR should decline because they failed to complete. And if other TDs setting out tourneys wish, they can choose not ban this group of bailers.

(We started out trying to block them too. But there were so many cries of being blocked that we stopped doing it. But house tourney TCR filter may return in some new format if players refuse to do the decent thing and finish the tourneys.)

[Bbradley62]

If I remember correctly, the cries were primarily from people who got blocked because they had no established TCRs, not from players who had low TCRs. I thought the consensus was that it would be good to allow players who met one of two conditions: fewer than some number (10?) of tournaments played during the the rating period (one month?), or a high enough TCR (75%?).