[pbleighton]

I am interested in estimates of the systems used by the world's top 100 pairs. How many play:
1) Natural, 4 card majors
2) Natural, 5 card majors
3) Strong club, 4 card majors, not primarily a relay system
4) Strong club, 5 card majors, not primarily a relay system
5) Strong club, 4 card majors, primarily a relay system
6) Strong club, 5 card majors, primarily a relay system
7) Weak/strong club, 4 card majors, not primarily a relay system
8) Weak/strong club, 5 card majors, not primarily a relay system
9) Weak/strong club, 4 card majors, primarily a relay system
10) Weak/strong club, 5 card majors, primarily a relay system

[hrothgar]

This might be a fairly interesting project.

100 pairs is a large enough sample that we can potentially exlcude the usual silliness about who is [or is not] the world's number 1 pair.

At the very least, it would be extremely interesting to try to correlate geographical location and bidding systems.

Probably the easiest way to proceed is to try to come up with a rough consensus regarding which pairs currently rank in the top 100. Once this is done, it shouldn't be too difficult to determine their basic style.

[mishovnbg]

Will be very interesting to have such statistics. If u can give me some links where i can find information about champions of world, european and american greatest tournaments and systems playing by them i will do such research.
Misho

[luis]

Hi, This is just the beginning of a list, please feel free to add pairs/correct my errors and comment if you want. If there's some way to make this post editable by everybody (Hi admins!) then that would be ideal.

Meckstroth - Rodwell: 5 card majors, strong club, many gadgets. Mini-NT.

Balicki - Zmudinski: Polish club, 5 card majors. Strong NT. Specialized 2s.

Hackett - Hackett: 4 card majors, natural methods, light openings. Weak NT. A system usually called "the science"

Blaskett - Bruun: 5 card majors, dual 1c opening (nat or 15-19 bal). Weak NT.

Bochi - Duboin: 5 card majors, NT range upon vuln (9-12, 12-14 or 15-17). Artifical responses.

de Weis - Muller: 4 card majors, Strong NT

Gromov - Petrunin: Precision, 5 card majors 12-15 or 15-17 NT

Lauria - Versace: Natural with 5 card majors and strong NT

[lifemonster]

Cohen-Berkowitz
Precision, 14-16 NT(I think)

Sontag-Weichsel
Power Precision

and how can we forget Gitleman-Moss, for their outstanding back to back over 80%performance in Challenge The Champ of the Bridge World, with natural based system?(Strong NT, 2/1)