[19robin]

When I look at my score I can try to work out what the opposition were playing [acol/sayc etc] from their profiles [if they have one.]

Is there a reporting tool of any sort in BridgeBase that "automates" the task please? clearly it would only be an approximation.

I did try searching for the information before posting this, and I gleaned that 15 tables were selected for the comparison [the traveller]
and that if robots got involved they might like to sit East/West.

Any help or guidance much appreciated.

[Vampyr]

You should be able to see the auction on the travellers.

[19robin]

Thank you Vampyr, my question was not phrased well. I play acol, so when I have played a session and only managed to score say 44%, I'd like to be able to see that my opposition were bidding/made up of (just by way of example) 40% acol players, 40% Sayc players and the rest 'not known' just by clicking a button, I think that the software is in possession of the data needed to calculate, I was just wondering if there is anywhere a way of easily getting to it.

[mycroft]

How would anyone know? Unless there's a line on the top of the card with "general system" - and that's assuming they have a card, or they're playing it.

How do you tell the difference in a 1NT auction between Acol and K/S? Or between Standard American and 2/1 (or Precision, if they use a 15-17 NT)?

How do you tell from my profile (which I should change, as I'm no longer willing to learn others until I stop learning Python): "2/1, K/S, EHAA, Prec." Never mind all the people whose profiles are just lists of conventions that bolt on nicely to almost any system...

[Vampyr]

mycroft, on 2020-November-23, 14:46, said:

How would anyone know? Unless there's a line on the top of the card with "general system" - and that's assuming they have a card, or they're playing it.

Some people do have a card though, and it would be helpful if it were accessible through the travellers. Since that is not possible, you could look at all of the partnership’s boards in the session in question, which might give you some idea of their basic approach.

[19robin]

Thank you very much for your replies, I appreciate there are just too many variables, as you suggest I need to make the effort to manually assess if I want to know more about the general 'opponents'. It illustrates well how complex bridge is!

[mycroft]

True, and that would be nice. Something for "suggestions for the software"? I'd do it if I could lock the request down.

My guess is that without care, it would be hard not to massively bloat the record (given that even the text on a random ACBL check-the-boxes card is larger than the board record including full play and explanations).

Answering the OP's question in general, though, is a very hard task.

[19robin]

Further thanks are due. To explain a little more, as I play acol (at the moment), I want to look at acol players bidding if they did better than me. It might then become obvious that Sayc would improve my game? Who knows? I am sure there's a genius out there who's written some sort of analysis software which does close to what I'm thinking about. Most grateful for the replies to date!