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What is your estimation of how much time (either total hours or percentage of free time) is spent by players who have accumulated 10,000 to 20,000 BBO Masterpoints?
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#2
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Posted 2017-August-30, 08:55
There are only 9 users in that point range (and 1 with more than 20K). Is this really a meaningful statistic?
Anyway, we don't keep a history of login and logout times in an easily searchable database. To answer this question we'd have to scan the log of all activity.
Anyway, we don't keep a history of login and logout times in an easily searchable database. To answer this question we'd have to scan the log of all activity.
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Posted 2017-August-31, 11:22
Than you for your reply. I was seeking to spark a general discussion about how much time one might need to plan on investing in order to reach a rarefied strata. I wasn't asking an admin to run a database query. Perhaps my question could somehow have been worded differently.
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Posted 2017-August-31, 12:29
The biggest variable is how well you play (and how fast).
If you are a top expert, you could expect to win about 1/2 masterpoint per 12 board tournament. To win 10,000 masterpoints, you would have to play in ~20,000 tournaments. If you estimate 30 minutes to complete a tournament, that's 10,000 hours of playing. Daylong tournaments award a lot more masterpoints for top finishers, so you would have to estimate how well you could do in those which should reduce the hours required.
The main point is that you have to estimate how many masterpoints you can win per tournament (per board) (play in a large number of tournaments and divide the number of masterpoints won by the number of tournaments). If you only win 1/10 masterpoint per regular tournament (and rarely place in the Daylong tournaments), you might be in the 50,000 hour range.
If you are a top expert, you could expect to win about 1/2 masterpoint per 12 board tournament. To win 10,000 masterpoints, you would have to play in ~20,000 tournaments. If you estimate 30 minutes to complete a tournament, that's 10,000 hours of playing. Daylong tournaments award a lot more masterpoints for top finishers, so you would have to estimate how well you could do in those which should reduce the hours required.
The main point is that you have to estimate how many masterpoints you can win per tournament (per board) (play in a large number of tournaments and divide the number of masterpoints won by the number of tournaments). If you only win 1/10 masterpoint per regular tournament (and rarely place in the Daylong tournaments), you might be in the 50,000 hour range.
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Posted 2017-August-31, 14:00
At 40 hours per week, rounded to 2000 hours per year, that is 5 "full time" years for top experts (10k hrs), and 25 "full time" years for the rest of us (50k hrs).
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Posted 2017-September-01, 08:54
not how much time but $$$
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Posted 2017-September-01, 09:58
OK, here's one data point. The top BBO point holder, Leo LaSota, played about 400 tourneys in the past month, about 70% in ACBL Instant Duplicates, and averaged 0.65 points in those tourneys. But it only takes him about 12 minutes per tournament. He totaled about 77 hours playing in non-daylong tourneys, and earned 201 points, 2.6 points/hour.
Daylongs provide him much more bang for the buck -- he played in less than 1 per day, about 3 hours total, and earned about 59 points, about 18.4 points/hour.
Daylongs provide him much more bang for the buck -- he played in less than 1 per day, about 3 hours total, and earned about 59 points, about 18.4 points/hour.
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