The Great Boat Race - Session 1 in 2022
Wednesday players at both Cambridge and Tauranga played the same hands on 19-Oct - as they will on 26-Oct and 2-Nov. This is not abnormal - it happens with every session of bridge at about one third of clubs in NZ. It is part of a scheme called X-Clubs which scores across the results of many clubs. The reason for this arrangement is to slot everyone's results into a wider spectrum so the percentages are more meaningful. It takes about 120 pairs for the results to settle down to +/-0.5% of what they would be in a huge field.