LAW 90 - PROCEDURAL PENALTIES
Hi all
Law 90 specifies most of the events where a proceral penalty may be applied by the director. I can not find any definition of what such a penaty(s) may be. As a procedural penalty may be appealed, surely it would have to have documentation for the director to quote? There are various suggestions of appropriate penalties for teams in the NZ Bridge manual. By specifically relating to teams events, such suggestions are by definition not for club play?
Pulling boards from tables that have not started their last board within the last 2 minutes of the alloted round time is no deterrent in club play and adjusting the score to penalise is a big can of worms. Is there Procedural penalty definitions or guidlines for NZ bridge club directors to follow?
Thanks Malcolm
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- NICK WHITTEN14 May 2024 at 05:48PM
Hi Malcolm
I don't think there are any standard answers to your questions here
Which suggests directors have a free hand to a certain extent
For my part I regard PPs as a last resort ( I have never applied one)
I would, after adequate warnings, apply a quite savage one (at least 1% off their score for the session)
and tell them that figure when giving them their final warning, so they can't complain they weren't expecting itI think it is important for the director to be consistent when ruling in similar situations
cheers
Nick - Brad Johnston15 May 2024 at 12:36PM
10% of a board is the standard penalty for 'innocuous' infractions.
If I was directing, and a loud post-mortem/claim which makes it impossible for the next table to play the board - I would give the non-offending pairs AVG+, and the offending pair(s) would get this level of penalty to try actually show this behaviour does actually negatively impact other players.
Given that our sessions tend to be ~25 boards in length, this amounts to a penalty of 0.4% of a total session score.
I wouldn't go beyond 50% of a board as a procedural penalty - which would be for habitual infractions which the pair has been warned about in the past.
If a pair did do something 'worse' than this, they'd just get disinvited from the session.
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