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richard brewer

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average minus ( 23:16:59 WedApr 2 2003 )
Country: australia

If a pair is given average minus (40%) at matchpoints and their final percentage is less than 40% is their matchpoint total adjusted down like average plus is adjusted up.
Law 88 only mentions 60% but I seem to remember seeing in some forum that it also applied to 40%.
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Re: average minus ( 00:42:56 ThuApr 3 2003 )
You are correct: a pair given Average Minus in a duplicate pairs receives 40% of a top, or their session average, whichever is the smaller.

The authority for this is the WBF Laws Commission minutes dated 1998-08-30, #1.



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Re: average minus ( 21:54:17 SunApr 6 2003 )
Law 12C1 does say "at most 40% of the available matchpoints".
But something like "a maximum of 40% of the matchpoints available, or the percentage of matchpoints earned on boards actually played, whichever is smaller" should be added to Law 88.

Hopefully omissions like this will be rectfied when the Laws are next revised.



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