EBU Affiliated Clubs Only

There is a feature in Bridgewebs to retrieve the NGS Grades automatically from the EBU.

NGS Grades Download from EBU

You will first need to go to Web Admin - Settings - Site Details

• Enter Your EBU Club Number
• Enter your EBU Club password.
• Enter Update frequency - Monthly, Weekly, Daily
• Max Scan for Missing EBU Nos - None, 5 to 100, default None, see below (Release 2.19q)
• [Save]

Once these have been entered Bridgewebs will automatically obtain the NGS Grades for the club at the requested frequency.
Technically, each time any results are uploaded or the site updated, then Bridgewebs will check that the NGS Grades have been downloaded for the frequency sepcified and, if not, retrieve them from the EBU site. This is for efficiency reasons to avoid unnecessary downloading of the same file.
The "NGS Grades" file downloaded from the EBU will contain an entry for a player included in MyEBU as a Member of the Club
If "Max Scan for Missing EBU Nos " is set to other than None, Bridgewebs will look up any entries missing from the Club List one by one and add to the club list.

NOTE: This is particularly slow. It is preferable to add a frequent player to the MyEBU Club list 

NOTE: Bridgewebs will update the Bridgewebs Membership database for any Players on the Membership database with an EBU Number that is found on the EBU NGS List retrived above

NOTE: Players will only appear if:

• the Bridgewebs Membership database has an EBU Number (Member or Visitor) and Registered at the EBU as a Member of the club. 
• the Bridgewebs Membership database "Opt-in Rank" is set to YES.
• the player has ticked "Appear in masterpoint promotions lists" in their MyEBU Account "My Details".

If you find the NGS rating or anything else is not as you expect, please check that the EBU Number is correct for each player.

Membership - [NGS List] Tab

You can use the Web Administration [NGS List] Tab to review the status of your Membership List versus the "NGS List" information retrived from the EBU

• The Column "BW" will show:
  • B - means there is an entry on the Bridegwens Membership database.
  • Blank - means you only have an entry for this player at MyEBU and you may wish to consider deleting this at MyEBU 
• The column "NGS" will show
  • N - means there is an entry on the Club Member list at MyEBU
  • blank -  means there is an entry on the Club Member list at MyEBU

Displaying NGS Grades

You can display the NGS Grades in your web site.

• Create a New News Page
• Create a News Items
• Enter some text as necessary
• Use the Widget "EBU NGS Grades"
• go to "Page Options" to make this Public or Private.

or let Bridgewebs add a page automatically to the Members Only Tabs.

NGS Rank Percentage

In WebAdmin - Settings - Scoring, you have an option to display the NGS Ranking for an event on the Ranking Page

• Show with Popup Detail
• Show without detail
• Do not show

Bridgewebs will calculate the average NGS % for the event using the NGS Percentage for each player downloaded at the beginning of the month. This is an indication of the strength of the event and is not as comprehensive as the EBU Calculation which takes into consideration the latest information and Strength of Field, split by direction for Straight Mitchell.