Marching On

MARCH has been my busiest ever month, as far as I can recall, for team chess.
For Battersea I lost to a 174, drew with a 169, drew with a 159 and beat a 165.
For Sussex I lost to a 173 and beat a 171.
For Hastings & St Leonards I beat a 148 and drew with a 152.

My updated first-season Battersea stats (CLL is Central London League; LL is London League):
Event..............Colour...Grade...Opponent's Grade...Result
CLL................White.....169.........183............................L
CLL................White.....169.........197............................L
LL...................Black.....169.........158............................W
CLL................White.....169.........158............................W
LL....................Black.....169........204............................L
CLL................White....169.........203.............................L
CLL..................Black.....169........180............................L
Eastman Cup...Black.....169........199............................D
CLL.................Black.....163.........172*...........................L
CLL.................White.....163.........153...........................W
LL...................White.....163.........188............................D
CLL.................Black......163.........166...........................L
LL...................White.....163.........150............................D
CLL.................Black.....163.........175............................D
CLL.................White.....163.........174............................L
LL....................White.....163.........169............................D
CLL.................White......163........159............................D
LL....................Black......163........165............................W
*Opponent has no official grade. Last published grade was 172 in 1997, which was pre-recalibration, and he was in the 180s before then.
Overall for Battersea I am +4=6-8 for a grading performance of 164.

Overall for Sussex this season I have lost to a 172, beaten a 169, lost to a 173 and beaten a 171, for a grading performance of 171.

Overall for Hastings & St Leonards this season I have beaten a 156, beaten a 148 and drawn with a 152, for a grading performance of 185.

It is said you can prove anything with statistics. That is an exaggeration but, despite my 185 grading performance for Hastings, there is no way I would rate my results there as better than my results for Sussex.
Indeed, it could be argued that my results for Battersea (no losses against lower-graded opponents, but a win against a higher-graded opponent, and with four of my six draws coming against higher-graded opponents) are better than for either Hastings or Sussex. I guess it is just a quirk of the English Chess Federation grading system.