Wednesday, August 08, 2018 4:17 PM
The RDBC has started participating in the Common Game for all of its pairs games as a way to enhance your experience at the bridge club. You won’t notice anything different when you play in these games because all it means is that instead of using the club computer to generate the hand records we will be using hand records generated by a computer in Florida. The enhanced part of the experience starts when you go here and type your ACBL # into the box and click Login. You will see a screen like the one below.
The Section Percentage column shows the % score that you just achieved when you played these boards at the RDBC. The Field Percentage column shows the % score you get when your RDBC results are compared with the thousands of club players across North America who also participated in the Common Game and played the same hands. If you are interested in seeing a more detailed analysis of how the Field Percentage is calculated then click on the Game Date that interests you and you will see a screen like the one below.
It shows you how each of the boards you played does when compared to the results from a very large field. You can look above and see that on Board 3 my Score of +800 got me a top board in the club (100%) but it only got 78.8% when compared to the field. If I want to know what contract I “should” have been in on Board 3 then I can click on the Board Detail button to find out as you can see below.
Yes there is a lot of information on the page above but it does answer my question in a number of different ways. First, look at the results section and you can see that 284 pairs got a score of 1440 which means they bid and made 6NT. This is definitely better than my +800 but should we have known to bid to 6NT? Well, on the right hand section there happens to be a couple of different write-ups of the hand and both of them discuss whether getting to 6NT is a good idea or not.
Anyway I could go on, as there are lots of other interesting things to look at on the Common Game site, but I will leave it to you to explore for yourself.
Enjoy,
Jason Larrivee