movingon Posted January 30, 2016 Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 I would like to see the ACBL tournament software include the opening leads in each contract. (I believe OK Bridge does this). One hallmark of pairs that "collaborate" are consistently good/great leads. It would be good to be able to see anti-field leads at a glance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1eyedjack Posted January 31, 2016 Report Share Posted January 31, 2016 MyHands data does include the opening leads. Indeed it includes the full play history. What is this "ACBL tournament software" to which you refer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve2005 Posted February 4, 2016 Report Share Posted February 4, 2016 I have no idea how many cheating reports are filed each day/week/month, but an acknowledgment email that BBO is doing something would be good customer relations IMHO. Could be simple form letter responses like: We looked at your report and have not found anything suspiciousWe looked at your report and are conducting further investigationsWe looked at your report and suspended XXX for xxx days.We looked at your report and you are an idiot for reporting these hands (just joking to see if you read my entire post :P )ACBL recorder system currently has nothing like this. I don't see why BBO should. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1eyedjack Posted February 4, 2016 Report Share Posted February 4, 2016 ACBL recorder system currently has nothing like this. I don't see why BBO should.After all, ACBL is perfect so BBO should emulate it as closely as possible. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve2005 Posted February 4, 2016 Report Share Posted February 4, 2016 After all, ACBL is perfect so BBO should emulate it as closely as possible.BBO is essentially a club as far as the ACBL is concerned. No club I know of does anything close to what BBO does. to combat cheating. They should be commended not condemned.Hopefully the ACBL will revamp the recorder system or replace it, we will see. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnichols Posted February 6, 2016 Report Share Posted February 6, 2016 BBO is essentially a club as far as the ACBL is concerned. No club I know of does anything close to what BBO does. to combat cheating. They should be commended not condemned.Hopefully the ACBL will revamp the recorder system or replace it, we will see.Every club that I have an association with, as a player or a director, investigates every allegation of cheating that is brought to the director or to club management and takes appropriate action. What more do you suggest that we do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted February 6, 2016 Report Share Posted February 6, 2016 Every club that I have an association with, as a player or a director, investigates every allegation of cheating that is brought to the director or to club management and takes appropriate action. What more do you suggest that we do?I don't think he was saying that clubs don't investigate cheating. But they don't have to deal with multiple cheating allegations every day, and when they receive accusations there's not usually much they can do to investigate, since they don't have a detailed history of all the hands like we do. So what we do is both quantitatively and qualitatively different from what most f2f bridge clubs do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
movingon Posted February 24, 2016 Report Share Posted February 24, 2016 MyHands data does include the opening leads. Indeed it includes the full play history. What is this "ACBL tournament software" to which you refer? Yes, if you look up each hand individually, you can find out what the opening lead is.What I refer to is the ability to look at the Traveller for a tournament and see not only all of the final contracts at each table at a glance but to also see all of the opening leads at each table. Lead anomalies might be quite evident. For example, say that 25 of the pairs end up in a 3nt contract played by North and only one of the defending pairs makes the "killing" lead, one is invited to now look at this hand to see if there was some sort of an indication for it. OK bridge software added this feature to its software..... Noreen (movingon) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted February 24, 2016 Report Share Posted February 24, 2016 I can see how this might be useful for our cheating investigator, but he hasn't asked for it. I think that 99.9% of the time it would be wasted space for ordinary users. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted February 24, 2016 Report Share Posted February 24, 2016 I just realized why he hasn't asked for it. He downloads the myhands data, which includes the play of each hand, into a spreadsheet. I assume he has macros that help him look for anomalous leads like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 I just realized why he hasn't asked for it. He downloads the myhands data, which includes the play of each hand, into a spreadsheet. I assume he has macros that help him look for anomalous leads like this. No need to ask for it. The data is extracted into excel which allows the investigators to have opening lead, hcp, distribution, leaders values in the opening lead suit, 3rd hands values in the opening led suit, the opening bid, the initial response, openers rebids, etc, without any additional editing or changing of the way the software is written. Think of it as poorman's bridgebrowser. The one requirement is to add "&excel=1" to the end of the search command on the myhands site so the hand data can be captured in excel instead of a date redirection to the data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
movingon Posted March 18, 2016 Report Share Posted March 18, 2016 An update on my postings here on the forum from back in August:The player who I reported many, many times for suspected passing of UI to two different partners is now apparently not playing ACBL pair games. He is playing ACBL robot games but at least appears to have been either banned from playing with the two partners or perhaps banned from playing ACBL pair games entirely. I am thankful to see this. movingon (Noreen) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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