Saturday, February 28, 2015

Overcommitted again this weekend, so I won't be at club, grrr. And next weekend is no good either.

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Port Clinton tournament blog entry

A new blog entry is complete for Port Clinton, OH, where Will and I recently played a tournament.  It includes the usual in-text bingo quiz I hope may be fun. 
As usual, I invite any and all who play events to submit blog entries of any kind.  With interest, the blog address would be changed from http://mridoutscrabbleblog.blogspot.com/ to something reflecting the Bluegrass Scrabble club in name.

Sunday, February 22, 2015

updated stats, 2/22







oldnew
avgavg.
final 2014-

WLWin %
ratingrating
scorebingos
2015 rating
Steve3175 %
17301730
4031.5
1734
Matthew30100 %
15801601
5043.33
1580
Will3350 %
15961568
3711.5
1600
Joe3175 %
11951195
4061.5
1150
Betty8561 %
11341136
3680.92
1136
Victoria2250 %
10201020
3660.75
1016
Jan6366 %
694716
3430.22
694
Janney0110 %
378369
2950.18
382
Cheryl2250 %
311311
?0.5
327

Results, 2/22

Matthew  439          Betty  312                    Betty  368          Jan  327                    Jan  362            Will  302
OROIDES                                                   PITEOUS                                            IRONIES         ISOLATER*
IODATION
HEATING

Matthew  540          Betty  270                    Betty  493          Jan  318                    Jan  357            Janney  299
TINIEST                 PINTADOS                 MARINES
TRAILERS                                                 RESOILED
LANTERNS

Will  360            Janney  279                      Betty  369          Janney  360                Matthew  533          Will  370
GRISTLES                                                 RETAINED       AFFAIRS                   DENIZENS            PREVENTS
                                                                                                                                   ISOLATE
Jan    352          Janney  262                                                                                    STRANGER
                                                                                                                                   RETCHES

Saturday, February 21, 2015

Club tomorrow (2/21)

If I'm at club tomorrow, it will be because the roads were too poor for me to go skiing.  :)

For those that do make it to club, I would encourage you to play with the new wordlist.  However it's fine to use the old list if both opponents agree (or no one has a copy of the wordlist available).

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Updated stats

Thanks to Cheryl for providing results from Sunday's session at Bob Evans.   Without knowing who played whom and game scores, the ratings score averages have remained static, but I have updated the win loss records and bingo averages.










avgavg.
final 2014-

WLWin %
rating
scorebingos
2015 rating
Steve3175 %
1730
4031.5
1734
Will2166 %
1596
3992
1600
Joe3175 %
1195
4061.5
1150
Betty5362 %
1134
3750.87
1136
Victoria2250 %
1020
3660.75
1016
Jan3175 %
694
?0.25
694
Janny070 %
378
2900.14
382
Cheryl2250 %
311
?0.5
327

What a fun week it's been (not). At least I didn't have to shovel any snow today. All in all it distracted me from getting this online..Results of Feb. 15 club play (the games were closer than they look up till the last round):

NAME
W - L
SPREAD
BINGOES

Betty
3 - 1
+244
  ERODING 67       TEAZLES 72
        SATINET 74       DE(S)IRES 78
Jan
3 - 1
+10
  S(T)OWING 93      
Cheryl
2 - 2
-85
  TWI(S)TER 58       COAST(E)R 73
Janny
0 - 4
-199
  DILUTES 71      

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Port Clinton congrats, new blog entry

Congrats to Will on his fabulous top 10 finish at the open tournament in Port Clinton, OH this last weekend!   He gained the most points of any Lexington player who attended (6).  

I've added a new blog entry to http://mridoutscrabbleblog.blogspot.com/, with the results, bingo quiz, and commentary on my Des Moines trip and tournament from two weeks ago.   I again invite anyone to let me know if they would like to write anything from tournaments they attend.  Should this happen, I will create new web address that reflects it being of our club instead of just my name.  One for Port Clinton will be forthcoming soon, complete with Will's thumping of yours truly.

Sunday, February 15, 2015

Club Today

I'm not going to be able to make it out today after all.  Also, Will and Matthew are playing the Port Clinton, OH tourney.  Factor in the bleak weather forecast and our numbers may be a bit slim today. I did say that today would be the first meeting where we use the new word list, but if you and your opponent agree (or if no one is present with a copy of the new list), feel free to use the old one instead.  Above all, be careful out there today!

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

2015-16 standings, stats and rating begin

Hello, and welcome to a new 'season' of club stats.  Again, I arbitrarily start the season with the anniversary date of my having moved here and started nerding it up with lots of numbersness.  Obviously I will be add in all our names as we make it our next club meetings.


2015-2016 Bluegrass Scrabble Club Standings



























oldnew
avgavg.
final 2014-

WLWin %
ratingrating
scorebingos
2015 rating
Steve3175 %
17341730
4031.5
1734
Will2166 %
16001596
3992
1600
Joe3175 %
11501195
4061.5
1150
Betty2250 %
11361134
3750.75
1136
Victoria2250 %
10161020
3660.75
1016
Janny030 %
382378
2900
382

Sunday, February 8, 2015

Feb. 8 Results

Six of us made it out today, for our club's swan song with TWL2:

Joe R. 3-1 +323
Steve 3-1, +82
Betty 2-2, -18
Victoria 2-2, -28
Will 1-2, +123
Janny 0-3, -353

Round 1:
Joe 409, PENNIES, RETAXES
Steve 383, AUTOING

Will 379, FOILERS*, ENLARGED
Victoria 364

Betty 372
Janny 307

Round 2:
Steve 440, VERMIAN, OUTVIES, TZIGANES
Will 355, SPURTLE

Joe 420, FINESSE
Betty 326, HABANERO

Victoria 407, LOONIER
Janny 283

Round 3:
Joe 443, TENTIER, LISTINGS
Victoria 334

Steve 432, FERRITE, GELANTS
Betty 415, DONATE, ETAMINE

Will 464, VIOLENT, RONDELS, ENWRAPS
Janny 281

Round 4:
Betty 388
Victoria 360, SETTLES, LOANERS

Steve 359
Joe 353, ARMORER

Announcement - New Word List

It's official, the updated wordlist (Official Tournament and Club Word List - OTCWL2014) goes into effect on April 10, 2015.  This means that in any TWL NASPA tournament you play on or after that date, words like GI, PO, and ANGSTIER, currently invalid, will thereafter become acceptable plays.

In order to prepare our club for this update, I'd like for us to begin using the new list starting with next Sunday's meeting, Feb. 15 (no one objected when I proposed this timeline previously).  Since availability of electronic versions of the new list is currently limited, I'll order a hardcopy of the new list that we can pass around at club meetings (I'll probably hand it off to someone who makes it to club more often than I do :).  The official NASPA hardcopy word list can be purchased here:  http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/shop.pl

An authorized electronic list is available to NASPA members by downloading Zyzzyva 3.0.3.  Detailed instructions for doing so can be found here:

http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/w/NASPA_Zyzzyva_Windows_Installation

I've been playing around with a beta version of the software for the past week, so I'd be glad to help anyone that's having trouble.  Currently only a Windows version is available, but iOS and Linux versions should be available within a few weeks.  Hopefully smartphone/tablet app updates will start showing up in the next few months.

I'll be at club today as well, likely playing my last games under the TWL2 wordlist, and available to answer any questions folks may have about the above changes.

Monday, February 2, 2015

2014-15 season final stats

Doing the Des Moines club stats, I've always started over (except for player ratings) right after the annual tournament there.  I moved here right after that last year, and that event is next weekend, so it's been about a year since I began keeping the same stats for Lexington.  And so, here are the "awards" and final stats for the 2014-15 "season"!  And further down the blog is a post with the head-to-head records between us all.

Highest Rating:                Marc       1736
Highest Avg. Score:        Steve         435
Most Bingos/Game:         Marc        2.07
Biggest Rating Jump:       Betty       +189 pts
Biggest Ratings Dive:      Matthew    144 points.  Booo.  BOOOO! :)
100 Games Club:             Betty (115), Matthew (111), Jan (102), Victoria (100)







oldFINAL RATING
avgavg.
first

WLWin %
ratingfor 2014-15
scorebingos
club rating
Marc7653 %
17361736
4242.07
1795
Steve36881 %
17341734
4351.86
1680
Will511676 %
16101600
4151.70
1503
Matthew793271 %
15601580
4121.94
1724
Ken3260 %
14041404
3881.00
1406
Jim303446 %
12831283
3411.01
nr
Joe8753 %
11501150
3701.20
1169
Betty674858 %
11341136
3721.00
947
Eric5271 %
11051105
3651.14
1086
Martha5838 %
11021102
3290.38
nr
Margaret151451 %
10411042
3691.00
968
Victoria544654 %
10161016
3611.34
863
Wendy4357 %
949949
3681.33
931
Lisa6842 %
923923
3470.71
nr
Brandon2340 %
899899
3671.20
888
Kelly2722 %
879879
3250.66
894
Jan366635 %
709694
3280.38
652
Marsha030 %
500*500*
1900
500
Janney197719 %
392382
3100.17
312
Cheryl114918 %
314327
2940.23
311