[harpazz]

i am looking for a tool that will help me to decide about the real level of a new partner i am about to play with.
i suggest that to each player the following information will be available:
average IMP per board last year or last 1000 boards ( and number of boards counted )
average MP results per board last year or last 1000 boards ( and number of boards counted ).

this might improve how one select a new partner

[Hanoi5]

Here we go again...

[diana_eva]

harpazz, on 2011-September-29, 04:32, said:

i am looking for a tool that will help me to decide about the real level of a new partner i am about to play with.
i suggest that to each player the following information will be available:
average IMP per board last year or last 1000 boards ( and number of boards counted )
average MP results per board last year or last 1000 boards ( and number of boards counted ).

this might improve how one select a new partner

Hi Harpazz, welcome to the Forums.

Please read this Discussion about ratings on BBO:

http://www.bridgebas...rating-players/

[pooltuna]

This information is already available for up to a month's worth of data. You for instance have played so far in the last month 1076 IMPs Hands for an IMPs total of 321.55 or an average of 0.30/hand. You have also played 328 MPs Hands for an average of 54.95%. In spite of privacy concerns of some I post the data openly here because if you want it you can't object to showing yours

[bd71]

pooltuna, on 2011-September-29, 08:05, said:

This information is already available for up to a month's worth of data. You for instance have played so far in the last month 1076 IMPs Hands for an IMPs total of 321.55 or an average of 0.30/hand. You have also played 328 MPs Hands for an average of 54.95%. In spite of privacy concerns of some I post the data openly here because if you want it you can't object to showing yours

For those not aware, the source of this data is...

http://www.bridgebas...hands/index.php

[wyman]

lol

This info is pretty useless anyway unless you can normalize by opps and seriousness.

If my partner and I play against JLall 90% of the time, our IMP scores are going to be decidely poorer than if we only play against BBO randoms. Or if we were testing a new system or methods just to see the effects. Also, from many (most?) of the late-night games I've played in, there seems to be some drankin' !! I don't think I'd want to hold those boards against anyone (or, conversely, reward the opps).

edit: not to mention lol @ scoring across the bbo field

[bd71]

wyman, on 2011-September-29, 08:38, said:

lol

This info is pretty useless anyway unless you can normalize by opps and seriousness.

If my partner and I play against JLall 90% of the time, our IMP scores are going to be decidely poorer than if we only play against BBO randoms. Or if we were testing a new system or methods just to see the effects. Also, from many (most?) of the late-night games I've played in, there seems to be some drankin' !! I don't think I'd want to hold those boards against anyone (or, conversely, reward the opps).

edit: not to mention lol @ scoring across the bbo field

I think "useless" is an overbid. There is at least some signal amidst the noise.

I use this for quick screening of possible pickup partners for Speedball tournaments. I'm basically looking to screen out people with average matchpoint scores below a certain threshold (over what I hope is a decent sample size).

I accept that, in theory, I could be erroneously screening out the regular jlall opponents. My suspicion is that these people are pretty rare.

I also accept that, in theory, I could be failing to screen out really inexperienced/bad players that play almost exclusively against other really inexperienced/bad players. My suspicion is that someone who plays against worse average competition than BBO generally, which I know and can adjust for, is also pretty rare.