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If you think Jack has "infuriating defects" then GIB makes you want to buy a rope to hang yourself, GIB is a baby compared to Jack

because 5 cards major don't belong in 1NT, they are opened 1M because weak hands opposite 1NT are much more frequent because 2C Stayman is also used with weak hands and 4/4M 4/5M 5/5M 3451 3460 and 4S/5+m because 3C shows 1345 or 3145 GF

one of the very few in the world :) I have thought about adding it to my sys, but never did

Ah, so you only have a right to write in the forum if you posted 8579 times (and have nothing better to do with your time than tell others what to do or what not to do). You are speaking for Fred, I assume he gave you authority to do this, can you also make payments in his name? I don't give a crap what you think, your childish opinion is of no importance. Many people want a rating system, and you, little boy, don't want them to post this. Poor poor kid. So young and already beyond repair.

Why mention GIB? There is a much better program on the market: Jack GIB is pathetic compared to Jack

Your words give me an indication where you are from and what your IQ is. You are the type that will/would have said: It is my slave, I do with him whatever I want OR It is my ball, you can only play with it if you choose me in your team OR It is my house, I can burn it if I feel like It is sad for you you live in a country without freedom of speech and opinion. The country of book burners. The others feel that the forum is here for a reason.

And our homework for this week is to read: Mein Kampf?

To New Zealand? You are way off base: to the USA, thats where you want to be if you want no freedom of speech and bookburners

ANY rating system is better than BBOskill

I vote for Antrax idea: Let's start BBORandomSkill.com and make it not so random, let's just add 0,5 to 1 level to the lowest levels to make them happy (as they are now with BBOskil). Then ask them for money to help us set it up. They all told us they want it in this forum. This is a goldmine!

IMPERFECT? It is hopeless, showing the reverse of the capability of a player.

Increase to 100 or 150 at least

Very inaccurate is a very nice and mild way of saying it. It is just way off. Most of the time it will tell you the opposite of the real strength of the player. This site needs to go down the sewer.

That is very cheap, because you ignore all what I just said, and all that is true. Me moving to OKB won't improve the software of BBO. You value your rating so much, and you don't even realize it means absolutely NOTHING on BBO. Let BBO add a feature to rate a player, they have the means and the data! to do it. Unfortunately they don't want to do it. The most horrific of all is that on a site where at least 10000 players play at the same time, 16 scores are compared. This is equal to comparing the score of 1 pair on a huge live tourney. You want a way to rate yourself and others, let BBO do it. I don't mind to pay 100-200 USD per year to BBO for membership if they take the software from kidlevel to adult: Getting rid of users with multiple logins, penalty for non finished hands, making it impossible to let some idiot click a seat 100-300 times in a few minutes etc. etc. IF I were a kid like you: I could ask you the same question: YOU want a rating system, why don't you move to OKB?

BBO skill is a very poor way of rating players. First of all your score on BBO is compared to 15 other pairs, which is hilarious knowing the amount of players online every day. In comparison: OKbridge compared 52 pairs AND did not count the top 2 and bottom 2 scores for the average to compare with. On BBO scores for one board mean next to nothing since players frequently don't finish a board, since they play only a few cards to move on to a team game or a tourney (this happens at least 10 times a day at my table), then the board is finished by a new player who has no clue about the play before, or it gets claimed. Often angry players bid 7NT in rage and redouble, then leave, or stay and claim. Or claim down 10 in a board which is only down 1 or 2. On BBO there are many pick up partnerships with none or very few agreements, lots of boards get ruined because of lack of agreements (3 misunderstandings per board is not uncommon). Then there are the players who just start to play bridge and rate themselves expert or better, you play with them, get a few terrible scores, stop playing, meanwhile BBO skill thinks you are a beginner. BBO skill uses only PART of these really silly scores, ONLY the previous month. So if you don't play a month, or just a few boards, your rating drops dramatically. BBO skill should go where it belongs: in the toilet.