For the truly bored and Scrabble-addicted, I've updated my blog  (http://mridoutscrabbleblog.blogspot.com/) with a new entry from the Memorial Day weekend tournament in Chicago - the Arden Cup.  As always, it includes quiz on bingos I found (and a lot I missed!) and some neat definitions and factoids in the quiz answer section.

Now with that bit of ego out of the way, on to the good stuff, updated standings, stats and ratings!  See bottom for a note about ratings calculation as relates to newcomers :)

					old	new		avg	avg			Final 2015-16
	W	L	Win %		rating	rating		points	bingos			rating
Marc	4	0	100 %		1746			491	3			1716
Steve	19	5	79 %		1728			420	1.83			1689
Matthew	31	11	73 %		1660	1643		405	1.88			1630
Will	49	20	71 %		1571			413	1.76			1546
David	2	1	66 %		1481			371	1.66			1480
Ken	12	12	50 %		1420			384	1.37			1469
Betty	45	35	56 %		1262	1251		371	1.26			1181
Joe	2	3	40 %		1238			388	1.4			1252
Victoria	38	52	42 %		1098	1123		359	1.43			1211
Margaret	12	11	52 %		1110	1105		379	1.08			1132
Eric	1	2	33 %		1082			363	1.33			1104
Lisa	0	1	--		890			358	1			896
Fred	4	5	44 %		811	805		334	1.22			733
Janny	15	43	25 %		668			310	0.22			574
Kaye	1	3	25 %		new!	575*		282	--			nr
Darrell	0	8	--		500*			278	0.25			nr
Karen	0	4	--		new!	500*		282	0.25			nr
Alex	0	4	--		500*			280	0.5			nr
Cheryl	5	19	19 %		287	286		300	0.33			291

Ratings note:
In an attempt to emulate the NASPA system, newcomers' club ratings cannot go below the 500 entry point until after 13 games.  Until then, the asterisk denotes "provisional ratings".

What that means for all of us with "established ratings" is that games against players with provisional ratings don't count for or against others' club ratings, win or lose.  I -do- include scores and bingos into the other stats I keep and post here though.

Examples:  I went 2-1 Sunday, but my two wins were against our awesome newcomers.  So for purpose of rating, I went 0-1 (I lost to Victoria), and so my rating dropped.  On the flip side, Cheryl went 1-2 on the day, with one win and one loss against the newcomers.  For rating calculation, though, she only went 0-1, and so only lost one club rating point.

Should Karen and Kaye join us again (and again and again we sure hope!), once they have passed the 13-game mark, wins and losses against them will be counted the same as games against anyone else.

Meanwhile, until a player the -50- club game lifetime mark, what would otherwise be the usual ratings gain or loss from a given club session is then increased or decreased by 50%.