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Looking at the results.
Several members have asked how to get to the interesting and useful results analysis, and what it all means. So I thought I'd write a walk through...
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Click on the latest 'Results' entry at the top right of the website 'Home' page.
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Click on your name in the 'Ranking' list. This will open your 'Scorecard'
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Click on 'Play it again', below the hand diagram. This will open 'Bridge Solver Online'. Or if you're asked to choose then pick 'BS Online'. This also abbreviated to BSOL.
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BSOL provides 4 views – 'Play It Again', 'All Pairs', 'Personal' & 'Board'. Initially the 'Play It Again' view is shown, but I'll come back to that later.
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Click on 'Results Analysis', this opens the 'Personal' view of BSOL and makes other views available via the buttons at the top ('Go To..' also opens the 'Board' view).
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These notes are based on the BSOL 'Help', so if you want more detail go there.
The 'Personal' view:
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The table shown in the 'Personal' view mostly replicates the 'Scorecard' information, except that by default it is sorted 'By Role' (Declarer/Defender). The computer analysis is shown in the centre 'DD Tricks (ETF)' column, and by colouring within the 'Ld' (Lead) column. 'DD' is short for 'Double Dummy', which is the name of the analysis method. 'ETF' is short for 'Extra Trick Factor', which is the number of tricks made above or below the theoretical maximum (which might not be biddable/makeable in practice).
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Green or Red colouring in the 'Ld' column indicates sub-optimal leads (grey indicates an impossible lead was entered during scoring). They are shown in red if they were made by your partnership (disadvantageous to you), and in green if made by the opposition (advantageous to you).
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The 'DD Tricks (ETF)' column can be switched to show 'Adjusted ETF', by clicking on the column header, and I always do this. 'DD Tricks (ETF)' is based on the optimal lead being made whereas 'Adjusted ETF' uses the actual lead made by or against you, which is more realistic. Note that the '% of Boards with ETF >= 0' & 'Avg ETF' values in the 'Summary' change if you make this switch (these give an idea of how well you have played).
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The 'Personal' view should help you identify boards that might be worth a closer look (using the 'Board' view). For example you could look at:
The 'Board' view:
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