In calculating the Ladder rankings, I’ve run in to a minor but significant glitch that will require a rules change to fix. See below for the gory details as to the whys and hows.
The resulting rules change is that (to be reasonably fair, and to avoid a major software rewrite) players who are absent or do not play any Ladder games for two consecutive club nights will be moved to the bottom of the Ladder, and will be taken off the Ladder after three such nights. This demotion in rank will happen after all the games for that night have been rated.
Now, on to the gory details…
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