How to have the right MP

Are the MP your PC produces in pair events correct calculated ?

This is easy to find out: look at the MP value a sole top-scorer pair made in a specific board.
If his opponents got the minimum MP in this board, then your PC produces corrupt MP.
or
if the MP of a pair and the MP of the opponent pair in a board (any line)
sum up to the top MP value of this board, then you PC produces corrupt MP.

More exact, it is the program you use. Corrupt in the sense that this value does not
match  LAW 77;  your  programm uses “negatice Scores” something not know in
the LAW  ( called rezipro method).

Your club cannot opt out of this LAW anymore than you can play with 54 cards or
six suits. If you don’t follow the law of bridge you are not playing bridge, but some
other game. Thus anything  that is in the LAW book is compulsory.

Remenber: you don’t write negative scores in the boards-traveles. How come, your
computer uses them.? It is a simple matter of evolution. When the code for your
scoring-prgramm was written – an this must have been in the 199x – using the
reciproc method was the state of the art at this time. In combination with
bilateral  compared boards, it produced results fairly near to corect made MP.
This might have been the reason why national bodys accepted  this way of scoring.

This “near to” happens only  if the field  is even, contains  players of the same level.
In  smal clubs, where beginners, experienced and top player meet,  the result is a
"high-low! effect.  Sometimes you are on top of the ranking list, and some times
bottom, and you never kow ahead.

With the presence of at least one perfect scoring program ( the Scorer#1) you
must not offer corrupt MP to your club members any more. The hard life to go
down to a bottom, when you play against strong members, is one of the reasons
why many bridge players  prefer the private play.

 Besides, the Scorer#1 operates all methods by click, so you may compare the effects.
This is one ot the many features which you may find out when you click
www.bridgeassistant.com/web_b2e or here.

 Make you choice .

STOP
There is is another case of corrupted scores, and they are easy to detect : when your
winners list shows scores with brocken figures, example 219,4.
This happens when your programm does not follow Law 13 C and does not award
an adjusted score. In this case, the  program uses a (complicated) formula to adjust
matchpoints ( not scores) instead of the usual inferior-equal-superior routine.
Such broken MP will not exist if everybody presents a score in the board, only if they
are missing or corrupt.
Insofar this is a minor case, but still against the LAW..
The scorer#1 program has a routine to produce "awarded" scores. It applys the lowest
possible score and produces by this zero MP. At the same time it adds the request MP,
 40%; 50%; 60%or whatever the TD decides.
 

written by Paul Hauff
producer of the Scorer#1
June 2007