Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 11:31:40 01/14/03
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On January 14, 2003 at 13:16:36, Uri Blass wrote:
>On January 14, 2003 at 13:02:21, David Rasmussen wrote:
>
>>You display poor mathematical understanding.
>>
>>/David
>
>If someone display poor mathematical understanding it is the programmers who let
>me to lose rating from winning games.
>
>I have no reason to learn how to set formulas on ICC.
>It is not about learning math.
>
>If I set formula not to play against weaker players I am going to inflate my
>rating relative to people who do not do it.
>
>Uri
Such people ("...people who do not do it") are in a small minority and their
ratings get quickly corrected by the majority so that there is little
difference.
Where there is group that is inflated/deflated with respect to others occurs
only when there is an explicit or tacit "policy" that largely segregates a group
of players from the rest.
Computer accounts tend to be such a group, because most humans will not play
them even when they have a comparable rating. Computers tend to only play each
other.
Not playing players significantly lower rated is not, since such a pairing of
players is rare anyway.
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