4-board half matches

[Siegmund]

These happen from time to time in Swisses. (Quite frequently, in the excessively popular 1¾ session Sunday game, "seven sevens.")

 

Does anybody happen to have the VP scale used for these (in ACBL events) handy? Do all TDs use the same one, or are they allowed to make up 10-point scales on the spot, or add the imps from the two half-matches to get one number to look up on the 20-point scale (which might mean the VPs in a 3-way match don't add up)

[Phil]

For our evening games where we sometimes have exactly 7 teams, we'll play a Whist movement (1 up, 1 down, 2 up, 2 down, 3 up, 3 down) and four board matches. we have used the 20 point scale but it seems wrong for such a short match.

[pigpenz]

saw a listing in Google for Groners Victory Point Scale for 4 bd matches, its bases on 14 VP

0 7-7

1 8-6

2 9-5

3-4 10-4

5-6 11-3

7-9 12-2

10-12 13-1

13+ 14-0

[blackshoe]

http://www.bridgeguys.com/VGlossary/VictoryPointsConversion.html. It has scales for matches from three to ten boards. You might also look at John Probst's paper on "VP Scales", linked from the same page (I had to grab the one from the bridgeguys archive, since John's site seems no longer active).