Exposing a problem

[malafaya]

Hi my name is malafaya and i created the nick XXX to to play free automated fun tourneys in the web version. I noticed a subtile form of cheating in this type of tourneys (i had noticed it many times before, playing with the nick malafaya): some players, as they know the tourney is clocked, when they know that likely will get a bad result, they deliberately delay the play of each card, up to the limit of being replaced by a robot, causing that the hand is not going to be finished and automatically Ave´s are assigned (after all, 50% is better than a 0...) to all players.

XXX

I´d like to make a suggestion that might solve this: instead of assigning automatically ave´s couldn´t a GIB analysis of the hand be made and assign more fair results? (I know some analysis will be inconclusive - when they largely depend on declarer/defenders play - and in such situations assignig averages can be acceptable, but in cold contracts??

 

Best regards

 

Pedro Malafaya

Edited July 8, 2013 by barmar
removed sentence identifying the tournament and player

[jjbrr]

play free automated fun tourneys

this part is important

[1eyedjack]

play free automated fun tourneys

this part is important

 

 

Cheating takes away the fun. But this is not the place to name names.

[malafaya]

I know, but if i didn´t name one might think it was his partner.

[barmar]

It is against forum policy to accuse people of cheating (or any other misbehavior) in public, so I edited your post to remove the details. If you want to complain about a specific player, send email to abuse@bridgebase.com.

 

And please notice that we have separate areas of the forum for bridge discussion and BBO discussion. Try to post your comments in the appropriate area.

[Zelandakh]

I think you should remove the avatar name too Barry. It took about 5 seconds to find the hand being referred to and Ben has consistently stated that this is regarded in the same way as posting the name directly.

[malafaya]

Hi my name is malafaya and i created a nick to to play free automated fun tourneys in the web version. I noticed a subtile form of cheating in this type of tourneys (i had noticed it many times before, playing with the nick malafaya): some players, as they know the tourney is clocked, when they know that likely will get a bad result, they deliberately delay the play of each card, up to the limit of being replaced by a robot, causing that the hand is not going to be finished and automatically Ave´s are assigned (after all, 50% is better than a 0...) to all players.

XXX

I´d like to make a suggestion that might solve this: instead of assigning automatically ave´s couldn´t a GIB analysis of the hand be made and assign more fair results? (I know some analysis will be inconclusive - when they largely depend on declarer/defenders play - and in such situations assignig averages can be acceptable, but in cold contracts??

 

Best regards

 

Pedro Malafaya

 

 

Sorry, i didn´t know that (it was my first visit to the foruns). Apologies.