[McBruce]

In a Mitchell movement game of seven and a half tables, I printed the one-round-to-go leaders and discovered that the N-S leaders and the E-W leaders were meeting in the final round. The sum of their scores so far was 159.49%, the E-W pair leading with over 82%!

The E-W pair took two boards out of the final three to finish at 79.76%, winning E-W by >16%, and dropping the N-S pair to 71.18%, winning N-S by >18%! Only six out of 15 pairs finished above average.

[brian_m]

McBruce, on 2011-November-18, 21:19, said:

In a Mitchell movement game of seven and a half tables, I printed the one-round-to-go leaders and discovered that the N-S leaders and the E-W leaders were meeting in the final round. The sum of their scores so far was 159.49%, the E-W pair leading with over 82%!

The E-W pair took two boards out of the final three to finish at 79.76%, winning E-W by >16%, and dropping the N-S pair to 71.18%, winning N-S by >18%! Only six out of 15 pairs finished above average.

No, but I can make a good try for the other end of the scale. I remember scoring up a Mitchell at St. Albans BC (in the UK) in the early 80s, it would probably have been around eight or nine tables, and the winning pair in one direction (I forget which) had a score of less than 53%. The lowest pair seated that direction had 47%. Scoring was by hand in those days, of course, and I spent a LOT of time double-checking those scores!

P.S. And the scores in the other direction showed a normal spread. That made it even more surprising.

This post has been edited by brian_m: 2011-November-19, 02:22

[Cyberyeti]

3 sillies I've been involved with.

A very random 24 board 7 team multiple teams which we won with only +21 IMPs.

An evening where 71% was only good enough for 3rd.

A qualifying event where we played 24 boards before tea at 42% and needed to get into the top sixth of the field to qualify with only 16 boards to go. Warp drive was engaged, and we proceeded to have one average and 15 70%+ boards for an 84% set and qualification.

[ArtK78]

I can add one remarkable result to this discussion along the lines of Cyberyeti's post.

Some years back, my partner and I were playing in a Regional Flight A pairs - two sessions, playthrough. With two rounds (4 boards) to go in the afternoon session, we were below average. We scored about 90% of the matchpoints in those two rounds to get back to about a board above average.

During the dinner break, a list was posted with the top 60 scores in the event after the first session. We did not make the list.

That night, we scored 71% to win the event by over a board.

[Antrax]

Last week my partner and I won the weekly club night with a 79.76% score. The N/S pair in 1st had 56.75%. I thought that was unusual until I read this thread

[McBruce]

I recall coming a trick short of sinking the other five pairs below average, while going from last place to first in the final shared-board round of a 3-table Howell...

[Vampyr]

McBruce, on 2011-November-18, 21:19, said:

In a Mitchell movement game of seven and a half tables.

LOL