Matchpointer Online
(Serving Tournament Bridge players in A.C.B.L. Unit 430:
Greater Vancouver, Fraser Valley, Howe Sound, Sunshine Coast)

Unit Player Ratings System (UPRS)--Current Standings

The UPRS system is a points-based rating system in which points won by individual players decay over time, so that a year later, only one-quarter of the points won remain.  This means you need to keep playing, and winning, to keep your ranking on the lists.  Players are ranked as individuals.  To win UPRS points, you need to finish in the overalls in any event run by Unit 430 within Unit 430: this means sectional tournaments, Monthly Unit Games, the Unit Finals of special events, and the IMP League.  Not included are the STaC and all other club-level events, District or Zone Finals of special events, Regionals, and NABCs.
There are three UPRS lists.  Flight A points are awarded for any event that carries no masterpoint limit, or allows a player with 2500 points to be eligible.  Flight C points are awarded for events limited to non-Life Masters.  Anything in between scores points toward the Flight B list.  When there are multiple flights or strats counting toward the same UPRS list, like Flight A/X events (both unlimited), the lower flight(s) or strat(s) scores half of the points of the one above.  Of course, with stratifying a player may win points on more than one list for a single win.  And new Life Masters remain on the Flight C list until their points earned there decay once they become ineligible for non-LM events.
Each event covered by the UPRS has a Flight A first-place point value pre-assigned regardless of the attendance.  All other awards are derived from this Flight A first-place award.  The highest award is for the IMP League regular season winners, who get 50,000; second-highest is 30,000 for winning a two-session event at a sectional.  The Flight B first-place award is one-eighth the Flight A award.  The Flight C first-place award is 1% of the Flight A award.  This is done so that developing players can tell when they are ready to move up.  When your total on one list is about the same as your total on the next highest list, this is concrete evidence that you are ready to move up to the next level (although it might take a while before you are ready to challenge the leaders!).
One change was suggested to me after the first printing of the results in the Matchpointer and seemed reasonable.  (I was surprised that many people didn’t suggest changes that would vault them up the standings!) Sectional knockout teams awards seemed to be far lower than they should be, so the awards for these events have been tripled to 15,000, to make them more valuable than a sectional one-session event (10,000) but less than a two-session event (30,000).  Knockout teams are easier to win than pairs events because there are fewer entries to beat, but it still is three sessions of tough bridge to get to the top!

Below you will find the top 200 in all three lists.  If you want to know how you are doing and you are not listed, let me know and I can look it up for you.

Ahem. Well, we're quite a bit behind in keeping up the UPRS, and this project is officially on the back burner (way back).