42krunner Posted May 27, 2016 Report Share Posted May 27, 2016 No, but maybe across all the tournaments you play over time. "In the long run we are all dead." -John Maynard Keynes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbstar Posted June 8, 2016 Report Share Posted June 8, 2016 Two suggestions. * Announcing the Free daylong tournament results should be more user friendly. Currently a "mail" is sent. This seems like a hack. It also means that If I log on, I cannot do anything else before reading/deleting my mail/mailbox. I cannot even logoff.However on the right there are 3 tabs: 1. News, 2. Who's online, 3. Results. I suggest showing tournament results in one of those tabs on the right.* If I am idle from BBO for 1 hour, then BBO displays a warning message "BBO thinks you are away". Why is there a sound alert with the message? I think the message is really low-priority one, if i don't click "OK" nothing bad happens. Please remove the sound from the message. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerriman Posted June 8, 2016 Report Share Posted June 8, 2016 The expectation is that it will even out -- some players will get a better hand on board 1, other players get a better hand on board 2, and so on. People play rubber bridge for money, which is highly dependent on who gets good hands. True. But I guess the difference is in rubber bridge you're competing against your opponents at the table, so the strategy is a bit different. With MPs or IMPs, every hand averages out to 0, so it doesn't matter which hands you play and they can be split up like in the tournaments without affecting the outcome much. If playing TP in true duplicate (with everyone playing the same hands), it's very similar to IMPs, except the risks and rewards are weighted differently. When people play different hands though, it no longer works due to the lack of a 0 average. Perhaps there is a way to calculate a weighted average so that you're still playing TP strategy, but in a way that gives everyone a chance of combined success? I guess that's basically turning it into IMPs, but.. (Eg, your score for a hand is the difference between the score for your contract and the median score for the hand - a mix of MPs, IMPs, but with TP weights.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted June 8, 2016 Report Share Posted June 8, 2016 Two suggestions. * Announcing the Free daylong tournament results should be more user friendly. Currently a "mail" is sent. This seems like a hack. It also means that If I log on, I cannot do anything else before reading/deleting my mail/mailbox. I cannot even logoff.This is done for any tournament that you play in and completes while you're logged out, not just daylongs. If you don't feel like checking the results now, just close the mail window.However on the right there are 3 tabs: 1. News, 2. Who's online, 3. Results. I suggest showing tournament results in one of those tabs on the right.Reasonable suggestion, IMHO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mink Posted June 8, 2016 Report Share Posted June 8, 2016 Two suggestions. * Announcing the Free daylong tournament results should be more user friendly. Currently a "mail" is sent. This seems like a hack. It also means that If I log on, I cannot do anything else before reading/deleting my mail/mailbox. I cannot even logoff.There is other mail apart from tourney results. Users want to know about mail in their mailbox then the log in. If you are not interested, you can get rid of the message with one click and later invoke the mail when it is more appropriate for you. However on the right there are 3 tabs: 1. News, 2. Who's online, 3. Results. I suggest showing tournament results in one of those tabs on the right.Tourney results are already shown under "My BBO - Hands and Results". They are not such important to grant them a new tab on the right. * If I am idle from BBO for 1 hour, then BBO displays a warning message "BBO thinks you are away". Why is there a sound alert with the message? I think the message is really low-priority one, if i don't click "OK" nothing bad happens. Please remove the sound from the message.Maybe the BBO window is minimized when the message occurs - then the sound is really useful if you like to stay logged in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbstar Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 * Announcing the Free daylong tournament results should be more user friendly. Currently a "mail" is sent. I found a solution to the annoying mails on login: Disable emails from user named "BBO". To do this, view user "BBO" and add him to "ignore" list. Nice solution BBO :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 I found a solution to the annoying mails on login: Disable emails from user named "BBO". To do this, view user "BBO" and add him to "ignore" list. Nice solution BBO :)Hmm, when we need to send important mail to users we also use that username. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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