Completion rates

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When tournament completion rate and board completion rate first appeared, I noted that my tournament completion rate was 100% and board completion rate was 99%. Somewhat later I saw that my tournament completion rate was 97%. A few days later it was 95%. I asked Uday what was going on.

 

Apparently there's a daily batch crunch of the portfolio of hands and tournaments for the approximately 30 days of tournaments that are online.

 

Not only is that a lot of data manipulation it produces strange anomalies that will occasionally nail the most scrupulous of BBO'ers.

 

Consider this scenario:

 

• MrEverready spends 5 weeks exploring the Kalahari desert.
  
• While playing the first tournament since returning, the power goes out.
  
• When order is restored, he wants to try out Geo USA for the first time.
  
• No can do. His completion rate is 0%.
  

 

OK, I'm being extreme here. But a similar less dramatic fiction arose in my numbers. I needed to leave one Automated tourney (which I did via the withdrawal/replacement mechanism).

 

Even though I had missed exactly one tournament which was receding into the past, my tournament completion rate kept dropping. Why? Because over the holidays I had fewer partners to play with and I got addicted to the bonus on Robot Rebate 55%. That just doesn't make sense.

 

But there's an easier way, one that never lies and can be kept updated in real time:

• Store the best available proxy for completion rate for a player. For me, say, 98%.
  
• When ANY tournament is completed, add one to the completion rate if it isn't already 100.
  
• When a FREE tournament, with a HUMAN director, is exited prior to completion, decrement the completion rate, if it is above 0.
  
• (Yes, I'm assuming that paying to play should give you the right to forfeit your entry as a sufficient punishment. Further proof is that there are plenty of subs ready to try to earn BBO points for free.)
  

 

A similar issue arises with the board completion rate, one that showed up for me because I rarely play in the Main Club. But because of the data window, I did have data, but now I do not. That, too, seems silly and could be addressed by a similar strategy.