The club rankings are meaningless whilst we persist in playing Mitchell movements without randomizing where people sit and using an arrow-switch to nulify any directional bias that the dealt boards may favour.  The same pairs concistantly sit North South or East West,  Consequently their results can only be compared with the other pairs that consistantly sit in the same direction.

I'm not convinced. The club rankings aren't THE most meaningful things in the world anyway.

If we only ever played Mitchell movements, you might have a point, but a quick look through the scores suggests that we play Howells about half the time. I don't think the phenomen is strong wnough (i.e. there are sufficient pairs that play variable EW or NS, and sufficient people who play with different partners, to "pollinate" the statistics) that it's having much effect at all.

I'm not quite sure why we don't play arrow-switching Mitchells though, other than people tend to screw them up, and the scoring software doesn't appear to have an option for it.