User talk:Nicolas.hammond/sandbox

Spingold

Nicolas and other visitors,
Here between double horizontal lines is section 1.4 Spingold, replicated by copy-paste and modified in 8 relevant cells. I hope this may briefly convey my alternative suggestions. Between double-lines and outside those 8 relevant cells, I have not modified the current version of section 1.4 except to delete the first wikitable entirely (table deleted ...). Notes continue after the second double-line. --P64 2016-10-10

Spingold

This section shows the impact of tainted titles on one of the main ACBL events.

This table shows the winners prior to the July 2016 convictions of collusive cheating of Fantoni/Nunes and Fisher/Schwartz.

[table deleted -P64 2016-10-10]

This table shows the winners after the July 2016 convictions of collusive cheating of Fantoni/Nunes and Fisher/Schwartz. Cheaters stripped of their places are shown in strike-through.

Spingold Trophy teams-of-four, 2006 to present (after collusive cheating convictions in July 2016)
Year	Winners	Runners-up
2006	Nick Nickell, Richard Freeman, Bob Hamman, Paul Soloway, Jeff Meckstroth, Eric Rodwell	James Cayne, Michael Seamon, Fulvio Fantoni, Claudio Nunes, Lorenzo Lauria, Alfredo Versace. Fantoni–Nunes titles forfeit for collusive cheating [n]
2007	Nick Nickell, Hemant Lall, Bob Hamman, Paul Soloway, Jeff Meckstroth, Eric Rodwell	Alexander Dubinin, Andrei Gromov, Cezary Balicki, Adam Żmudziński
2008	Alexander Dubinin, Andrei Gromov, Cezary Balicki, Adam Żmudziński	Roy Welland, Brian Glubok, Steve Garner, Howard Weinstein, Billy Cohen, Ron Smith
2009	Jan Jansma, Louk Verhees, Ricco Van Prooijen, Russell Ekeblad, Matt Granovetter, Ron Rubin	Rose Meltzer, Kyle Larsen, Alan Sontag, David Berkowitz, Larry N. Cohen, Tor Helness
2010	Eric Greco, John Diamond, Geoff Hampson, Brian Platnick, Brad Moss, Fred Gitelman	Rose Meltzer, Kyle Larsen, Alan Sontag, David Berkowitz, Fulvio Fantoni, Claudio Nunes Fantoni–Nunes titles forfeit for collusive cheating [n]
2011	Pierre Zimmermann, Franck Multon, Fulvio Fantoni, Claudio Nunes, Tor Helness, Geir Helgemo Fantoni–Nunes titles forfeit for collusive cheating [n]	Nick Nickell, Ralph Katz, Bob Hamman, Zia Mahmood, Jeff Meckstroth, Eric Rodwell
2012	Pierre Zimmermann, Franck Multon, Fulvio Fantoni, Claudio Nunes, Tor Helness, Geir Helgemo Team title forfeit for collusive cheating by Fantoni–Nunes [n]	Nick Nickell, Ralph Katz, Jeff Meckstroth, Eric Rodwell, Bobby Levin, Steve Weinstein
2013	Wojciech Gawel, Rafal Jagniewski, Jacek Kalita, Michal Nowosadzki	Leslie Amoils, Peter Bertheau, Thomas Bessis, Joe Grue, Jacob Morgan, Brad Moss
2014	Richard Schwartz, Allan Graves, Lotan Fisher, Ron Schwartz, Boye Brogeland, Espen Lindqvist Team title forfeit for collusive cheating by Fisher–Schwartz [n]	Pierre Zimmermann, Franck Multon, Fulvio Fantoni, Claudio Nunes, Tor Helness, Geir Helgemo Team title forfeit for collusive cheating by Fantoni–Nunes [n]
2015	James Cayne, Ron Schwartz, Lotan Fisher, Michael Seamon, Lorenzo Lauria, Alfredo Versace Team title forfeit for collusive cheating by Fisher–Schwartz [n]	Pierre Zimmermann, Franck Multon, Fulvio Fantoni, Claudio Nunes, Tor Helness, Geir Helgemo Team title forfeit for collusive cheating by Fantoni–Nunes [n]

Boldface is not part of my suggestion for the 8 lines so displayed; merely (a) relocation to bottom of cell, (b) small size, and (c) flushleft. (I don't know how to undo the centered format except by this technique that also displays the line boldface.)
[n] represents a single note ({{efn}}) in the footer section Notes, which provides some more explanation.
Redlinks title forfeit and titles forfeit --and perhaps place forfeit, runner-up forfeit, etc, variant terms deemed necessary-- represent links to a single section of the article on cheating, which explains ACBL action on "tainted titles" --or forfeit places, forfeit awards, etc, variant terms deemed necessary. (I agree with Newwhist that a separate article on "tainted titles" --or forfeit places, etc, seems unjustified.)

I dislike the centered format for player listings, but my flushleft suggestion for these one-line notes stands either way. This is not the place to develop the former criticism; and the centered format may even be virtuous here, in order to contrast with the one-line annotations.

That's all for now. Thanks for the preliminary work in your sandbox, Nicolas.
(three-stage contribution, signed only once) --P64 (talk) 22:59, 10 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I like the improvement. Suggest we add 'title forfeit by collusive cheating conviction by X-Y.' We don't know that they cheated in the event. Their title was forfeited because of a subsequent conviction.Nicolas.hammond (talk) 20:54, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]