User talk:Newwhist/sandbox/Project WPCB

Rosenblum Cup winners
Do you have any plans for the data compiled here? For the particular table? Do you have other test compilations, if this is one? (I have started one in a formal table. See Talk:Triple crown of bridge.)--P64 (talk) 19:58, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I would have guessed that the Rosenblum Cup has more than three double winners (Roger Bates, Lauria & Versace). My excuse is that I haven't much worked on that tournament.
 * I have a database of some major tournament results underway. Maybe I will get a lot of that done, as well as bring new tournament articles live, before we have a new Bermuda Bowl winner.
 * Have you automated any generation of tables? Not likely here, I guess. What about the sortable table of ACBLHOF members? That looks like too much work for me to make a table whose sorting is nontrivial. --P64 (talk) 18:20, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Not sure what you mean by automated generation. Please advise.  I have not done anything with the Rosenblum cup tables - here in my sandbox, I was just trying to figure out a way to have a table sort so that you could see all the placements of one individual.  I have done a recent rework on the ACBL Hall of Fame - can't remember when - look at the edit history there to see.   Newwhist (talk) 18:45, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

History of HCP
Karpin popularized especially a method of combining HCP and distribution points, as did Goren. I understand that HCP (straight 4-3-2-1) are sometimes called Workpoints because Milton Work had already used them as a very popular teacher --and Goren's mentor or employer, iirc.

Truscott & Truscott, Teach Yourself Basic Bidding (1976) seems to be the original publication or original in book form for counting distribution by "Assets" that multiply by 2, 3, or 0 with the known combined trump length. The first paragraph of chapter one implies that the method is new and original here. --P64 (talk) 20:06, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
 * At some point I intend to do some more work on the history of Hand evaluation and how early whist methods morphed with theadvent of auction and then contract bridge to the present. Not sure when I will get to it. Newwhist (talk) 18:57, 7 October 2011 (UTC)