Handicapping - Shark or Minnow?

1. All players have their own XG rating

2. XGs are updated every week in a 3-hour process that combines up the week's results with your history over the last 2000 boards

3. Your partner has an XG rating too

4. The average of your XGs is the "strength" of your partnership

5. Your strength is compared to the average of your opponents' strengths

6. The difference tells us whether you were a couple of sharks or a pair of minnows in that session

7. These differences (ie handicaps) are the amounts all raw scores must be adjusted to get everyone back to 50%

This explains just why your handicap can be quite different for other sessions. We call this Dynamic Handicapping as it is tailored to each particular session in an attempt to level that particular playing field.