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Teams Matches are going well for both teams in the Nottinghamshire County Teams of 8 leagues with us being in 2nd place in both Division 1 and 2

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Division 1

Position
  Played Won Drawn Lost Total VP's Average
Nottingham 1 (Gambit) 6 5 0 1 95 15.8
Sunday Tigers 1 5 4 0 1 67 13.4
Nottingham 2 (Aldeclarke) 6 4 0 2 73 12.2
Nottingham 3 (Team A) 5 1 0 4 28 5.6
Phoenix 6 0 0 6 17 2.8

 

Division 2

Position
  Played Won Drawn Lost Total VP's Average
Woodborough 1 6 5 0 1 90 15.0
Sunday Tigers 2 (Cosmos) 5 4 0 1 66 13.2
West Bridgford 5 3 0 2 59 11.8
Woodborough 2 6 2 0 4 41 6.8
Nottingham 5 (Ruff and Ready) 6 0 0 6 24 4.0
Teams of 8 Season report 2022-2023

Report on the Notts League Teams of Eight Division One, 2022-23 Season

This was the first season in which Sunday Tigers was a fully online club, which resulted in some changes in personnel.  Some players who were regulars in face-to-face (F2F) matches do not play on BBO.  However, the league is likely to make face-to-face matches the default where the travel distances are not too great, though we do not know whether it will do so in 2023-24 we do not yet know.  Luckily we recruited five new players this season who made a strong contribution.  We ended up third out of six teams in the division, with 101 Victory Points.  This was comfortably our best result in Division One to date, although Retford might have pipped us to the third position had they not incurred a substantial penalty for forfeiting a match.  Particularly notable was a victory in the first match against Nottingham BC 1, their first loss since 2017/18.

The final table was:

TEAM

WON

DREW

LOST

VICTORY POINTS

Nottingham BC 1

8

0

2

154

Nottingham BC 2

6

1

3

108

SUNDAY TIGERS

5

1

4

101

Retford

5

0

4

91

Woodborough 1

2

0

8

74

West Bridgford

3

0

7

58

 

Note: A total of 20 VPs were awarded for each match, the allocation depends on the margin of victory in IMPs.

 

VICTORY POINTS SCORED IN EACH MATCH BY SUNDAY TIGERS

Against Match 1   Match 2

Nottingham BC 1 13 1

Nottingham BC 2   3 10

Retford 12 17

Woodborough   8 14

West Bridgford   5 18

Total 41 60

As last season, we scored significantly better in the second half of the season.

Number of matches played

Bob Dyke 10

Janet Jacques   9

Tony Stephenson   8

Michael Bleaney 10

Stuart Ennals   6

Andrew  Humberstone   6

Jim Parker   6

David Taylor   6

Marc Gaudart                 6

Will Irving   9

Steve Lemmings   2

Ken Smith   1

Ross Crowther   1

Rob Turner   1

David Heard   1



 

Michael Bleaney

 

Season Report by Mike

Report on the Notts League Teams of Eight Division One, 2021-22 Season (by Micheal Bleaney)

We ended up fifth out of six teams in the division, which was somewhat disappointing. The final standings can be seen by scrolling down.


VICTORY POINTS SCORED IN EACH MATCH BY SUNDAY TIGERS

Against Match 1 Match 2
Nottingham BC 1 2 5
Nottingham BC 2 3 12
Retford 4 1
Woodborough 3 15
Nottingham BC 3 10 12
TOTALS 22 45


Note: A total of 20 VPs were awarded for each match, the allocation depending on the margin of victory in IMPs.

As the table above shows, we scored twice as many VPs in the second half of the season as in the first, although why is unclear because we were using much the same group of players (but maybe Woodborough and Nottingham BC 2 had significantly stronger teams in the first match than in the second).  In what aspects of the game did we fall short?  If we look at some summary statistics from the first five matches (from which we collected only 22 VPs out of a possible 100), the message seems to be that we were inferior in all areas of the game; we were not particularly good at bidding and making slams, enforcing or avoiding large penalties, or bidding and making games, and we lost IMPs on part-score hands as well:

Statistics from the first 5 matches For Against Comments
Slams bid and made 2 5  
Large penalties collected 0 3 (-500, -800 and -1400)
Games 72 95 (scores above 400)
IMPS on part-scores -54   (hands with scores at all tables between -390 and +390)

Because of their frequency, bidding and making games is by far the most important thing for winning matches, and we were clearly poor at that before Christmas.

Players (No. of matches)

Bob Dyke (9)
Janet Jacques (9)
Tony Stephenson (9)
Michael Bleaney (8)
David King (8)
Lynn Chawner (7)
Will Irving (7)
Fraser Winton (7)
Mo Logan (5)
Steve Lemmings (4)
Ken Smith (3)
Ross Crowther (2)
Rob Turner (2)

Results Matrix - Div 1 2021/22
Results
  Retford Nottingham 1 (Gambit) Nottingham 2 (Aldeclarke) Nottingham 3 (Team A) Sunday Tigers 1 Woodborough 1
Retford   8 - 12 7 - 13 16 - 4 16 - 4 4 - 16
Nottingham 1 (Gambit) 11 - 9   13 - 7 20 - 0 15 - 5 13 - 7
Nottingham 2 (Aldeclarke) 12 - 8 7 - 13   20 - 0 17 - 3 19 - 1
Nottingham 3 (Team A) 11 - 9 0 - 20 2 - 18   8 - 12 8 - 12
Sunday Tigers 1 1 - 19 2 - 18 12 - 8 10 - 10 3 - 17
Woodborough 1 1 - 19 3 - 17 9 - 11 8 - 12 5 - 15  
The Team

Micheal Bleaney - Captain
Janet Jacques
Bob Dyke
Tony Stephenson
David King
Lynn Chawner
Will Irving
Fraser Winton
Mo Logan
Steve Lemmings
Ken Smith
Ross Crowther
Rob Turner

If you are interested in playing for the teams, let me know.