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Posted 2014-April-29, 10:02

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IMP Pairs 15 tables Skip Mitchell 15 EW phantom pair 12 rounds 24 boards
In the scoring program i use the computer gives following options among other things.
1) cross imp / comparisons
2) cross imp pairs / SQR(rc/2)
3) Butler Pairs
4) Aggregate scoring
Rightly or wrongly I chose method 2 although I do not know how it works.
On a particular board 3 pairs bid Vul game 8 pairs bid vulnerable slam and 1 pair bid grandslam.
The pair that bid grandslam was awarded 19.08 IMPS.
How is that possible. The datum is just about 1400.
Does method 2 have some different way of calculating datum? Should I use some other option?
Can someone please explain
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Posted 2014-April-29, 10:27

Cross IMPs options involve a comparison of each pair's result against each other pair's result (with or without some kind of factoring thereafter). A datum comparison is different.
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Posted 2014-April-29, 10:58

Presumably, all 12 declarers at least made their contracts. What scores did those in game and those in small slam get?
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Posted 2014-April-29, 11:36

View PostBbradley62, on 2014-April-29, 10:58, said:

Presumably, all 12 declarers at least made their contracts. What scores did those in game and those in small slam get?

yes all made their contracts. The 12 scores were 1370/1390/720/1470/1390/1470/2220/1470/1440/620/640/1390.
The contracts were 3NT/5C/6C/6NT/7NT making 12 or 13 tricks (depending on whether Club Queen was guessed or not.
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Posted 2014-April-29, 11:41

Sorry, my question was: what IMP scores did the game bidders and small slam bidders get?
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Posted 2014-April-29, 12:13

So, if the word "datum" ever comes to mind, ignore it. Irrelevant to X-IMPs, bad idea anyway.

vulnerable, 7NT= will make 13 imps against all small slams; 17 against the games. Add 'em up, we get 8 13s and 4 3 17s, for 172 155. To get 19.08 IMPs, we'll be dividing by 9 8ish. I have no idea where that number comes from*, but it's sqrt(rc/2), and that is supposed to "reflect teams scoring". It looks like dividing by 9 8ish rather than 11 10 (EBU) or 12 11 (ACBL) is going to inflate the IMP score, but the key number isn't the 19.08, it's the 172 155.

[Edit: can't count to 12 after all these years of counting to 13. Argh.]

* GordonTD has it below. "rc" is 11*12. I have no idea why yet, but I'm sure all will be explained in time.
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Posted 2014-April-29, 12:30

The datum is only used in Butler scoring. Cross-IMPs means that you compare a pair's score with all the other pairs playing the board, calculate an IMP difference for each of them, and add these all up to get a total. In methods 1 and 2 you then divide this total by some number to get an average IMP difference; in method 3 you just use the total.

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Posted 2014-April-29, 13:31

View Postmycroft, on 2014-April-29, 12:13, said:

So, if the word "datum" ever comes to mind, ignore it. Irrelevant to X-IMPs, bad idea anyway.

vulnerable, 7NT= will make 13 imps against all small slams; 17 against the games. Add 'em up, we get 8 13s and 4 17s, for 172. To get 19.08 IMPs, we'll be dividing by 9ish. I have no idea where that number comes from, but it's sqrt(rc/2), and that is supposed to "reflect teams scoring". It looks like dividing by 9ish rather than 11 (EBU) or 12 (ACBL) is going to inflate the IMP score, but the key number isn't the 19.08, it's the 172.


The method should be as Mycroft said. The actual x-IMP for the board should be roughly 14.1 (8x13+3x17)/11. It's not clear how the software showed 19.08.
Guess the correct option in the software for IMP scoring should be #1 - cross-imp comparisons.
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Posted 2014-April-29, 16:05

View Postzasanya, on 2014-April-29, 10:02, said:

15 tables Skip Mitchell 15 EW phantom pair 12 rounds 24 boards

Really? How does that work?
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Posted 2014-April-29, 16:27

View Postshyams, on 2014-April-29, 13:31, said:

The method should be as Mycroft said. The actual x-IMP for the board should be roughly 14.1 (8x13+3x17)/11. It's not clear how the software showed 19.08.

(8x13+3x17)/sqrt((11x12)/2)=19.08

View Postshyams, on 2014-April-29, 13:31, said:

Guess the correct option in the software for IMP scoring should be #1 - cross-imp comparisons.

Yes :)
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Posted 2014-April-29, 17:07

Okay, thank you. Please explain where that (rc/2)^0.5 comes from, Gordon? And how rc = 11*12?

I found the manuals for this scorer, and it was - unhelpful on this point. Almost as if if we wanted to use this scoring method, we'd already know all about it. Sort of like a "multiple teams movement".

Again, though, it doesn't matter what the "divided by" is, at least for the scoring (okay, factoring, yeah); it's the raw IMP score from all the comparisons that matters. Bringing it down to a "reasonable" number that we're all used to from single-comparison teams scoring, by dividing by some reasonable, constant factor is just for our feeble brains.
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Posted 2014-April-30, 01:52

View Postmycroft, on 2014-April-29, 17:07, said:

Okay, thank you. Please explain where that (rc/2)^0.5 comes from, Gordon? And how rc = 11*12?

r=results
c=comparisons

So I should really have written 12*11, not 11*12.

There has long been friendly disagreement between scoring experts about whether one should divide by the number of results or the number of comparisons, but the truth, as you say below, is that it doesn't matter much unless the numbers are small and you try to compare results scored by the two different methods.

View Postmycroft, on 2014-April-29, 17:07, said:

I found the manuals for this scorer, and it was - unhelpful on this point. Almost as if if we wanted to use this scoring method, we'd already know all about it. Sort of like a "multiple teams movement".


Well since the scorer comes from England where "multiple teams movement" is standard terminology, it's hardly surprising that there's no need to explain it. However I think you are correct that no-one who didn't already know about this obscure scoring method would want to use it. The only document that I could find that mentions this formula does so in the context of a more complex discussion about constructing VP tables and doesn't really answer your question.

View Postmycroft, on 2014-April-29, 17:07, said:

Again, though, it doesn't matter what the "divided by" is, at least for the scoring (okay, factoring, yeah); it's the raw IMP score from all the comparisons that matters. Bringing it down to a "reasonable" number that we're all used to from single-comparison teams scoring, by dividing by some reasonable, constant factor is just for our feeble brains.

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Posted 2014-April-30, 02:11

So if you can't agree whether to use results or comparisons, you just take the geometric mean? Sounds like a fair solution.
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Posted 2014-April-30, 02:18

View Postmgoetze, on 2014-April-30, 02:11, said:

So if you can't agree whether to use results or comparisons, you just take the geometric mean? Sounds like a fair solution.

Except that they are dividing the geometric mean by sqrt(2), so the final results are all much larger than when dividing by either results or comparisons.

I'll try to find out more about this.
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Posted 2014-April-30, 03:00

View Postgordontd, on 2014-April-29, 16:05, said:

Really? How does that work?

Sorry standard mithchell amd there was no phantom pair but that doesnt essentially change the IMP problem?
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Posted 2014-April-30, 03:03

View Postgordontd, on 2014-April-30, 02:18, said:

Except that they are dividing the geometric mean by sqrt(2), so the final results are all much larger than when dividing by either results or comparisons.

I'll try to find out more about this.

Thank you Sir.
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Posted 2014-April-30, 03:10

View Postzasanya, on 2014-April-30, 03:00, said:

Sorry standard mithchell amd there was no phantom pair but that doesnt essentially change the IMP problem?

No, it doesn't change it - I was just intrigued to find out more about this unknown movement!
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Posted 2014-April-30, 05:06

View Postgordontd, on 2014-April-29, 16:05, said:

Really? How does that work?

I suspect 30 boards in play, but pairs play only 24.
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Posted 2014-April-30, 06:58

View PostRMB1, on 2014-April-30, 05:06, said:

I suspect 30 boards in play, but pairs play only 24.


For IMP pairs this is even worse than arrow-switching.
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Posted 2014-April-30, 07:09

View PostVampyr, on 2014-April-30, 06:58, said:

For IMP pairs this is even worse than arrow-switching.

Yes. And, what fun at cross-IMPs. There could be hundreds of IMPs available to some pairs and not to others.
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