Bawburgh Bridge Club Competitions
This page provides a brief explanation of the competitions run by Bawburgh Bridge Club, and how and where their results are shown on the web site.
Prizes.
BBC does not present silverware. All prizes are in the form of cash.
Eligibility for Club Competitions.
Whilst visitors are welcome at club events, results only qualify for BBC club competitions if all members of the playing partnership are members. However all results are included in the calculation of handicaps. On the competition result pages ineligible results are shown in black and are excluded from the cumulative scores of the competition. Non-members names are printed in upper case.
Outline of the Club Year.
The Bawburgh club playing year commences on June 1st when member
renewals are complete. It is divided into three parts:-
Summer Jun 1 - Sept 30 (Usually about 14 Weeks)
Autumn Sept 1 - Dec 31 (Usually about 18 Weeks)
Spring Jan 1 - May 31 (Usually about 21 weeks - spanning the club year end on
March 31st)
Each playing day has its own competitions.
Wednesdays
We are proposing to re-establish our Wednesday sessions on a permanent basis
commencing September 2006. Until Xmas we propose to run an autumn ladder to
establish handicaps for the new community of attenders. We will then introduce
further competitions after the new year. For the Wednesday Autumn
Ladder we propose to award prizes to both the open and the handicap winner.
Thursdays.
In each part of the year there is an individual competition with awards to the handicapped winner. We propose to call these events the Autumn, Spring and Summer Ladders.
In addition there will be three feature competitions. A Pairs championship and a Teams championship will be spread over the Autumn and Spring periods. In the summer period there will be an Individual Competition.
Details of the Competitions.
1. The Ladder Competition.
In each of the three club periods, the club will stage an individual Ladder Competition. The club will accumulate percentage scores for individuals who compete in any pairs event in the relevant period. These scores will then be handicapped and the winner will be the player with the highest aggregate of handicapped scores.
For each period is a nominated number of eligible scores. The 'best score' value for each ladder will be calculated as follows:-
Spring Ladder Best 10 results
Autumn Ladder Best 10 results
Summer Ladder Best 8 results
Having announced our intention of awarding prizes to the outright and
handicapped winner in an earlier version of the web page , we intend to
honour this statement for the Autumn and Spring Ladders. However from the
2006 playing season there will only be Ladder prizes for the handicapped winner.
Handicaps for the Ladder Competition.
In each ladder we calculate each player's personal handicap which is used in the next Ladder competition. The handicapping system works like the weight handicapping of race horses and stroke handicaps in golf clubs. It is intended to give all those who play up to their normal form an equal chance of winning. If you average 47% in the Summer Ladder , your handicap for the Autumn Ladder will be 50% divided by 47% = 1.064. Conversely, if you average 53% , your handicap will be 50%/53% = .943.
You need 6 scores to establish a handicap. New and rejoining members together with less frequent players are given a handicap of one for the current period. The club committee reserves the right to award higher handicaps to new members having very high Master Point ratings.
2.The BBC Championship Pairs Competition.
This competition occurs in the Autumn and Spring periods of each year.
It is the premier competition in the club calendar. The goal is to
establish the Open Championship Pair.
Competitors are established partnerships of 2 club members. There
are 8 events in the two periods. The results of the competition are based on the best
5 results achieved by the partnership.
The club accumulates for each pair the positions they achieved in each Open
Pairs event; e. g. if you achieve three tops, and a second in four events your team will score 5. The pair with the lowest aggregate score
wins the competition.
The ranking in the Championship Pairs competitions is used to
determine the club's representation in county pairs competitions.
Partnerships containing non-members can compete, but their results are not eligible and are shown in black. The results of the Championship Pairs competition are also included in the relevant Ladder Competitions.
3. The BBC Teams Competition.
This competition occurs in the spring period for each year. Competitors are established teams of 4 club members.
One team substitute is allowed in every event. Substitutes can be members of other teams who are not turning out on that day. Members arrange their own teams and substitutes. Ad hoc teams are allowed to compete in each event and the club my arrange a spare pair to be present, so that couples showing up mistakenly for a pairs event can be accommodated.
On the day, teams competitions work exactly like Pairs events . Couples move from table to table guided by movement cards. Players fill in table slips which name the team members and normal travellers are used to record the score.
The difference is in the scoring. The movement arranges that
each E/W plays the NS couple in every other team and vice versa. The computer
system scores the event as a series of matches by each team against all
the others. The net scores for each board in each match are converted into Imps
by the scoring system, using the E.B.U Imp conversion table , printed on the
bottom of every score card. The result of each teams
match against every other is
published as plus or minus Imps for each team. The event results
show the teams in order of the total Imps scored in all the matches
played.
The result of the Teams Competition as a whole are based on the best three of
four results submitted by each team.
In most bridge clubs the best players get together when teams are called for, and the results of teams competitions are predictable from season to season. To counteract this, the teams competition at BBC will be handicapped using a system used widely in other bridge clubs. A handicap of 2 Imps is awarded for each percentage point by which the average of each of the 4 players exceeds 50%.
Say four players get together each with a running average of 60% in the previous Ladder competition. The Imp adjustment for the team in the Teams Championship will be 4 x 10% x 2 Imps producing a total handicap of 80 Imps for the whole competition, i.e. The converse happens for teams averaging below 50% in the previous period.
Each team receives the full seasonal handicap so the only teams with a chance of winning are those that turn out in at least three of the four teams competitions.
The Imp handicapping factor has been adopted based on other club's experience. Each season we will review the results of the previous teams competition and we may adjust the 2 points per imp to a figure which better reflects the relationship of cumulative handicaps to team form as observed at BBC.
Most players when they join the club are given a handicap of 1 representing an average of 50%. However the management reserve the right to adjust the handicaps of experienced incomers and teams competitors who do not play sufficiently frequently in the pairs competition to gain a handicap.
4. The Individual Competition.
During the Summer Period, the club proposes to initiate the club year by staging an Individual day. Whilst there is a social, icebreaker objective in arranging this events , the play will be based on pre-dealt duplicate boards and master points will be awarded.
The movement arranges that each player partners everyone else in the room for one round. It provides for two partner swaps at each table followed by a movement of players between tables.
The winner of the event has the best aggregate score.
A simplified convention system is used, basic ACOL, Transfers, Stayman and Standard Blackwood to minimise partnership negotiations.
Finding and Printing Competitions Results on the Club's Web Site.
The results of the competitions and events are printed out and placed on the notice board regularly at club meetings. In practice the print outs will be taken directly from the club's web pages for each competition which are discussed below.
Many web pages do not print satisfactorily.
To enable users to circumvent the problems, BBC competition result web pages
will show one of two icons against the heading,
either
or 
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Pages showing the
icon are Printer Friendly,
i.e. suitable for printing.
To see the results on paper, just click on File/Print with the page open.
If the page is showing a
icon, it is not suitable for
printing. However a click on that icon will change that
web page into the
version.
1. Competition Results
The competition Result web pages can be reached by clicking on "Program & Results" on the left of most web pages. This will take the user to a separate part of the web site containing the club Program for that day, the Results of all the Competitions and a web page which shows details of the Master Points held in the club scoring system awaiting transfer to the E.B.U at the month end.
Each competition web page shows the result of each event included in the results and the running result after the number of events so far staged.
2. Event Results
Event results are accessible on the web site in two ways.
- Club Program Page; if you click on the Event Title for the date, the Results for that event are displayed.
- Competitions Results; on all the competition results pages, if you click on the date at the head of the results columns, the results for that date are displayed.