How the Winnipeg Scrabble Club Reports Weekly Statistics and Results

The Winnipeg Scrabble Club publishes a "Last Week's Statistics" panel on its homepage after each Thursday session, and the panel follows a consistent structure: session totals first, then word-level highlights, then player standings. The figures are presented as a single week's snapshot rather than a running season table, so the panel answers "what happened last Thursday" rather than "how is the season going." The site also carries a news feed and archive for announcements and tournament results, which is where longer-form reporting lives.

What each section of the statistics panel contains

The panel is organized from general to specific, which makes it readable in a few seconds.

Session totals

The top of the panel gives three numbers for the week:

• Players — how many people attended and played
• Games — how many games were completed
• Average Score — the mean score across the session

In the sample week shown on the site (Oct 22, 2026), the figures were 7 players, 12 games, and an average score of 364. Because players attend different numbers of games, the average is a session-wide figure, not a per-player average.

Bingos

A bingo is a play that uses all seven tiles, and the club lists each one with the word and the player who made it. The sample week shows five:

The score column is the value of the bingo play itself, which is why the numbers cluster in the 80s and 90s with occasional 100+ plays for longer or higher-value words.

High scores

This is a simple ranked list of the highest individual game scores of the session, with the player's name attached. The sample week lists 491, 476, 458, 426, and 393. Note that a player can appear more than once — Gregg Bigourdin holds the top two scores that week.

Best performances

This section is the most information-dense and the easiest to misread. Each line combines a win-loss record, a spread, and a rating:

• Record — games won versus games lost, written as wins-losses
• Spread — cumulative point differential across the session, shown with a plus or minus sign
• Rating — the player's rating figure

The sample week reads, in order: Blair Rutter 2.0-1.0 +11 1428; Renate Duddek 2.0-1.0 +9 1366; Gregg Bigourdin 4.0-0.0 +9 1581; Annelies Kaufmann 2.0-2.0 +7 1248; Lynne Ward 1.0-2.0 -6 1070.

Two things follow from this layout. First, the list is ordered by spread, not by record — Gregg Bigourdin went undefeated at 4-0 but appears third because his +9 spread was smaller than Blair Rutter's +11. Second, the rating is a separate attribute carried alongside the result, not something recalculated visibly in the panel. If you want to know how a rating changed, the panel alone won't tell you; it shows the current figure, not the delta.

Where the rest of the reporting lives

The statistics panel is deliberately narrow. Announcements, schedule changes, and tournament results are handled elsewhere on the site:

• News items appear on the homepage with dates. Examples include a notice that there was no Scrabble on July 16, 2026, with play resuming July 23, and a congratulatory post for club member Callum Lehingrat, who placed first in Division 2 at the NASPA 2026 Scrabble players championship in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with a 21-10 record in a field of 70 and a $4,000 first-place prize.
• The news archive holds older items, and a separate tournament notice advertises the Prairie Dust-up Scrabble Tournament on 26-Aug-2026.
• Club statistics and player pages are listed in the site navigation, which is where cumulative or per-player views would sit rather than in the weekly panel.

How to read the panel without misinterpreting it

A few practical points for anyone using these numbers:

• The panel is a snapshot, not a trend. Nothing on it compares this week to last week. For that you need the archive or the club statistics section.
• Spread and record can disagree in ranking. A 4-0 player can rank below a 2-1 player, as the sample shows. Read the record column before drawing conclusions about who had the best night.
• Bingo scores are play values, not game scores. Don't compare a 102-point bingo to a 491 high score; they measure different things.
• Small fields make averages volatile. With seven players and twelve games, a single strong or weak performance moves the session average noticeably.

If you're deciding whether to attend, the panel is a reasonable preview of the club's level and format: roughly a dozen games among a handful of players on a Thursday evening, with bingos and 400+ games common enough to be listed weekly. The club meets Thursdays 6:15–10:00 p.m. at Canadian Mennonite University, South Campus, Room C09, 600 Shaftsbury Boulevard, Winnipeg.