Author: Richard Pijl
Date: 14:21:11 01/15/03
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>The way you are proposing, I assume that after playing 6 games, you are going to >use >_that_ as my "official rating". But what will it look like after 8 games? >Until you >get enough games, it is going to vary every time you add another result into the >mix, >which is what happens with TPR and with the normal Elo calculation after the >fact... That was not the debate. The point was that because of the large differences in opposition, your provisional rating could go down when winning a game, or go up when losing a game, that lead to a discussion that another (better) way could do a better job in calculating the provisional rating. Of course a rating is not reliable when based on only 6 games and big jumps can happen in the next games. But I think the rating organization should do its best to get the best estimate. They should compensate as much as possible for the spread in strength of opposition which is part of reality in ICC. Miguel's proposal is IMHO just a better way of doing that. Richard.
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