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I assume most of you are familiar with it but, basically, it argues that the total number of tricks available to both sides in any bridge deal is equal to the total number of trumps (i.e., the number of cards held by each side in their longest suit, added together).
To really apply the Law, you would mentally construct a table of scores. For example, if there are 16 total tricks and we take 8, then the opponents would take 8. Non-vulnerable, the scores would be +140, -140, assuming both sides were playing in a major. If we take 7, they take 9, etc. (See the Timm article below for an example.) The numbers would vary based on vulnerability and majors vs minors. I couldn't possibly do that at the table.
To short-cut the need to construct these tables in our heads, LC derived some general rules, some of which are familiar to people who have never read his book, or even heard of "the Law of Total Tricks", such as: "We should compete to the level of the total number of trumps we hold." and "We should strive not to let the opponents play in a fit at the two level."
Anyway, the point of this post is to ask whether anyone has ever tried to construct a table along these lines (I have to describe it because I don't know how to create a table in this forum): The first column would be "Expected Number of Total Tricks (Adjusted)"; then the column headings would be 2-over-2; 3-over-2; 3-over-3; 4-over-3; 4-over-4. The cells in the table would just be a "Yes" or "No" for whether to compete to that level. We would (I think) need separate charts for vulnerability, and maybe for majors vs minors. Oh, and doubled vs undoubled.
Neil Timm took a step in this direction here - https://bridge-tips....Tricks-Nill.pdf
I'm sure I could learn a lot by building these tables myself, but I'm lazy. Does anyone know if such a thing exits already?
