Bridge Winners Profile for Al Hollander
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- Member Since
- June 20, 2010
- Last Seen
- 13 hours ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- getting harry goldwater to laugh when opp called director on me
- Bridge Accomplishments
- bbo vugraph commentator, extensive library
- Regular Bridge Partners
- none this millenium
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- none
- Favorite Tournaments
- none this millenium
- Favorite Conventions
- big club, relay, transfer/flip-flop in non-nt
- ACBL Ranking
- Silver Life Master
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- What questions should I ask of the players in prior Senior USBCs?
- as mentioned in #10 above - i thought of MR's #2 ... just after reading MR's #2
- What questions should I ask of the players in prior Senior USBCs?
- based on some of the recent threads 1) does # of guaranteed days of play affect decision to attend 2) is likelihood of attendance affected by format 2a) RR + KO 2b) Pure KO with BYEs 2c) length of matches 3) Is venue a factor 4) (waffling about whether to include) seeding ...
- Senior COC issues with fewer teams entering
- is there a way to identify these non-participants to find out which changes to non-Open USBCs might entice future attendance?
- The time has come: Senior USBC Seeding
- one concern i have always had with the 2:1 weighing is that the 2 is based on INDVIDUAL and the 1 is based on TEAM. i.e. 2/3 of seeding points come from a combination of: acbl monsterpoints, team events where neither teammates nor partner(s) are on ...
- The time has come: Senior USBC Seeding
- Mike, when this topic first arose, i questioned if there should also be SPs for performance in the World Championship Senior Team events. That was shot down, but i don't recall the argument Probably has something to do with having to age into being eligible, so rookies never had ...
- The time has come: Senior USBC Seeding
- was typing my response to David when this came in treating RR as an event that earns SPs in a way that is analogous to Reisinger would be an approach consistent with my suggestion of altering the algorithm that uses both RR and SPs from the other stuff
- The time has come: Senior USBC Seeding
- regardless of which method is used to determine top 3 or 4 seeds, I think when top 3 get to choose the QF opponent, we should also consider the WBF approach where #1 also sets the SemiFinal bracket rather than a shuffle of 3/4. I believe historically, if RR ...
- The time has come: Senior USBC Seeding
- I agree with the sentiment that RR should be meaningful. Historically, I think the algorithm of VSR combined with a magical adjustment based upon RR has failed to do that. I am sure others will argue that BOTH VSR & RR should factor into the KO Seeding, but maybe there is ...
- RIP - Jan Janitschke
- my one contact with Jan was at a Las Vegas National circa 1990. between rounds i went out into the hall and Jan was whistling. I started whistling along, which got a nod of approval. but i lost points when i confessed that i did not remember if the piece ...
- Plea to BBO software developers
- does WBF page show board # or how many boards have been played? seems to me it was the latter, so when boards 17-32 in play, when a table is on #20, an up-to-date display would show scores thru 3 board # would be MUCH better an addtional useful piece of information ...
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