Coming Soon - Internet Bridge Domain (IBD)

[Yzerman]

Hi,

 

** Attention all BBO Tourneys - If you desire have an automated way to calculate points/ratings, have player points/ratings easily available on website, and would like to have your own tourney/clubs webpage PLEASE read this.

 

I would like to announce the coming of a new website application that I am creating for ANY and ALL BBO Tourneys and Clubs.

 

The "domain" as we have decided to call it, will have the following features for MEMBERS;

 

1 - Personal Profiles (personal info, picture, system notes attachments, conv cards)

2- Personal Pages for viewing of points, ratings, and history of results

3- Domain Website Messaging (send intradomain messages to other members)

4- Domain Member Calendaring (schedule your games on your personal calendar)

5- BBO Conv Card repository - Submit and retrieve BBO conv cards for tourneys

 

The "domain" as we have decided to call it, will have the following features for TOURNEY/CLUB owners;

 

1- Ability to enter tournaments on website schedule

2- Full Archive of tournaments results

3- Tournament LIN file processing for member points/ratings

4- Tournament "Ratings" - Process to rate game and determine avg strength of field

5- Ability to cumulate player points/ratings either Locally or Publicly (* see notes)

6- Free Webpage and link on homepage of IBD website to member tourneys/clubs

 

The theory behind the 'domain' is to add value to the BBO experience for all players, club owners, and tournament owners. Our intent is to help standardize and enhance tournaments that would like to participate in the domain such that there is recognized standard for;

 

1- Directors (Director Certification, Director Metrics)

2- Points/Ratings (Definded process for calculating points/ratings)

4- Ethics (Form, Committe, Processes)

 

IF YOUR CLUB/TOURNAMENT MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN PURSUING THIS SERVICE, PLEASE CONTACT MALUCY ON BBO, LEAVE MESSAGE ON FORUM FOR YZERMAN, OR EMAIL MALUCY@VERIZON.NET. WE WILL BE ASKING FOR INPUT/FEEDBACK AND CREATING SCHEDULES IN NEAR FUTURE.

 

* Notes - Thanks to TopFlight for the idea of allowing clubs/tourneys an option for points/ratings applied to club/tourney only. Tournaments will have option on website such that they can share their points/ratings on domain level OR keep points/ratings only in club (i.e. if a tourney is only local, then points/ratings for each player for that set of tourney is available from tourney stats, if a tourney is shared on domain the points/ratings are shared across all other shared tourneys). This feature is built to appeal to clubs that have a target audience and operate in more intimate environment.

 

Special thanks to Kleek, Cascade, Spwdo, and Flatbrain for lending their time and effort to help develop the idea.

 

Regards,

Michael A Lucy

[xx1943]

Thank you for this excellent idea. Many of the tools you are offering are on my TD-wish-list a long time.

 

I'm trying to create a new format especially for very fast players. I had a lot of good experiences with **Very Quick and Nice**

 

The features you are offering would be great.

 

Many thanks

 

Al

[xx1943]

Hi

 

Do u have an idea, when this great site will start?

 

I'm looking forward.

 

Al

[Yzerman]

Hi All,

 

Just a quick update regarding IBD. I hosted the initial IBD tournament on Monday, the tournament was successful in that the attendance was good and the actual tournament was, relatively speaking, problem free.

 

NEXT MONDAY - IBD will host our 2nd tournament, Monday 3:30 pm EDT OPEN TOURNAMENT, with pre-duplicated deals and hand records available after the game. I am building automated and user friendly hand record functionality on website, and Monday will be first attempt with this. LINK TO HAND RECORDS!

 

I would like to send a thank you to the number of BBO Tournaments and Clubs that have volunteered to use/apply the IBD site and structure for tournaments. IBD sponsored tournaments will grow over time in numbers, but for now we are attempting to grow slowly and identify/fix problems as they arise.

 

Three announcements I would like to post on the forum for now;

 

1 - IBD Website Available - I am working to get the domain name registered (www.internetbridgedomain.com), this normally take up to 72 hours to be implemented. As soon as the URL becomes available, I will let everyone know. For now, users may review the site from Internet Bridge Domain (IBD).

 

2 - IBD provides a complaint form on website - The complaint form is available to REGISTERED IBD members (registration instructions available on site), to make a complaint against other IBD player/director/host. The form allows complaints for ETHICS, ZT/BEHAVIOR, DIRECTOR and GENERAL violations. After submitting the form, the system has processes and workflow built in to manage that complaint and ensure response, documentation, and archiving of that complaint.

 

3 - IBD provides committee services for complaints - The website has a committee function built in which allows for review of all complaints that request "escalation". The committee will review the "escalated" complaints, in which references to ALL names are removed. Each committee member will be responsible for "voting" and entering feedback on the complaint, after which time the committee members are finished "voting" the system will make a suggestion based upon the cumulative "votes" and feedback. The penalties for BOTH violations and frivilous complaints, are standardized and documented on the website. The penalties that are system suggested are applicable only within IBD sponsored events EXCEPT cases in which committee has "voted" such that major violation has occured, then IBD will forward the complaint to BBO Abuse. We are currently working on identifying and occupying the 5 committee member positions with respected and knowledgable bridge players and would hope to have the "complaint" process working very soon. If anyone would like to nominate a respected player for the committee, please contact me (malucy@verizon.net or leave msg on forum), I would prefer that people not nominate themself for present time.

 

Regards,

Michael A Lucy

[Lukasz K.]

Great idea :D

 

And some idea: I think it is not necessary to show the "year rating" now.

Maybe a "last-30-days" ratings :)?

 

The second:

I'm a TD. If I create a tourn. will it added automatically or will not?

Should I tell you about tourney or not :\ I don't know -

is it for all TDs-tourneys or for selected only?

 

L.

[Yzerman]

Hi Lukasz,

 

I agree with your comment regarding the redundancy of the yearly point/rating column on the member lists. This was item I built in preparation ahead of time for when we move from 2004 to 2005, I will just add new table and accumulate for 2005. Perhaps I will put idea of managing/tracking 30 day increments of ratings and points on my list of develpment items. One concept I wish to implement in the near future is to allow Tourney/Club owners the ability to query to database based upon performance to retrieve lists for restricted games (examples - owner query database for members who play > 5 games in last month with > 0.600 rating and receive text file results of that query), and using 30 day metric of performance would fit well in that concept.

 

Right now, as the system exists, you must follow these steps to have tourney register on IBD, see this link for more detail Apply for Tourney;

 

1 - Register as IBD Member (link on homepage to register)

 

2 - Wait 3-5 minutes for registration process to complete

 

3 - Apply for IBD tournament (follow link above)

 

4 - Wait 5-10 minutes for tourney application process to complete

 

5 - Refresh your screen OR logout and log back in. Your login status will now have link for "Manage My Tournaments", this link will open your personal tournament managment page.

 

Note: Right now this IBD tournament list and the BBO tournament list and the BBO TD Schedule list are all separate. In a perfect world, we could have automated feed from IBD to BBO/BBO TD Schedule and vice versa (hint, hint uday).

 

The registration and application process is a little tedious and kind of like wandering in the wilderness right now. I am working on developing some help screens for users to reference for help and more thorough documentation. But for now, if there is any problem I am generally available to help when you have problems (BBO login=malucy, email=malucy@verizon.net, MSN=michael_lucy@hotmail.com).

 

Regards and hope to see you on IBD site soon,

Michael A Lucy

[mishovnbg]

Great idea Mike! I wish you success! :D

Misho

[Yzerman]

The Domain Name/URL is now active for IBD.

 

www.internetbridgedomain.com

 

Regards,

MAL

[Lukasz K.]

Regards and hope to see you on IBD site soon,

Hi!

 

 

My tourney (The Big Cut) has been registered and was played on tue, but I don't know how can I upload its results... THX for help :(

 

 

ALL IS OK NOW, SORRY FOR THAT B))

[Lukasz K.]

I have a small suggestion for the rating B)

 

Now we have a lot of players, who won 1 Event and have the rating 1.

They won f.ex. the tournament in which was 12 pairs.

Players, who have won 2 events or was in the first 10 are before them...

 

We could multiply the rating by a special "# of events"-rating. I think,

it could be f(k)=(1-1/k)^k*e, where k=1+#of events, e::=LN(e)=1,

so when player played a lot of events his rating is more reliable.

 

f(1)=e/4 =~ 0.7

f(2)=0.3*e =~ 0.8

f(10)=0.35*e =~ 0.95

f(20)=0.36*e = ~0.975

f(oo)=1/e*e = 1

 

F.Ex. we have now 3 players:

 

A:=1 event, rating 1.000 (1 of 12 pairs).

B:=2 events, rating 0.974 (2 of 166, 9 of 186).

C:=3 events, rating 0.951 (1 of 186, 14 of 70, 7 of 104).

 

MyRating( A )=1.000*0.70 = 0.700

MyRating( B )=0.974*0.80 = 0.780

MyRating( C )=0.951*0.86 = 0.818

 

Player, who played 1 event can have only 0.7.

 

Thx for read :)

 

If you like, you can add it as a new rating :()

[Yzerman]

Hi Lukasz,

 

There is documentation on ratings available from the main menu on IBD, menu [Productst/Services]->[iBD Ratings].

 

The rating formula is as follow;

 

FOR ANY SINGLE TOURNAMENT, PLAYER RATING IS -

 

Tourney Rating (Tresult, Tpairs) = (Tpairs-Tresult) / (Tpairs – 1)

 

A PLAYERS CUMULATIVE RATING (WEIGHTED) -

 

Cumulative percentage rank = Σ (Tpairs-Tresult) / Σ (TPairs-1)

 

Hence the rating is weighted on average field placing. I understand the point you make is that a player who play in few events may have higher rating, but over time this metric will tend toward reliable rating for player. What I intend on doing after there is enough data in system, is to adjust the rating lists/queries to display rankings of players who have played in => X events (where X will be 5<x>10 ).

 

I would be glad to discuss your idea further, but I wanted to document exact method of current calculation. Somebody in the past actually recommended deriving a new data point from existing data, keep existing IBD eRating metric intact, and then add a nother rating metric called 'Adjusted IBD eRating' and have adjustment factors similar to what you suggest however we never got past the concept!

 

Anyways, thanks for the feedback and hope to here from you sometime.

 

Regards,

Michael A Lucy

[Yzerman]

New IBD website feature -

 

IBD Convention Card Library, use a library for centralized storage of BBO convention cards. Users may use the library for entering, viewing, and retrieving convention cards.

 

- Enter partnership conv cards, collaborate updating the BBO conv card - MUST BE REGISTERED MEMBER TO ENTER

 

- View existing partnership convention cards, use as template for new cards

 

- View existing partnerhips convention cards for use as reference for new ideas

 

- Retrieve existing convention cards as templates for building new convention cards

 

Future development and enhahncement to the IBD/BBO convention card library are in planning and design stage, please keep an eye on IBD homepage news for more information.

 

Regards,

Michael A Lucy