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Subject: Re: help needed about elo calculation

Author: Frank Schubert

Date: 03:31:01 03/01/00

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On February 29, 2000 at 13:20:35, Masciulli Gianluigi wrote:

>On February 29, 2000 at 12:48:07, Tony Hedlund wrote:
>
>>On February 29, 2000 at 09:52:06, Masciulli Gianluigi wrote:
>>
>>tscp15's 90.2% against 1700 = 2062
>>fortress161's 96.9% against 1700 = 2232
>>golem01's 0% against 1700 is < 1000
>>fortress16's 58.8% against tscp15 indicates a difference with 64 points,
>>2179-2115.
>
>thanks tony for your answer.
>
>ok ... that's the easy part but ...
>you see you listed frotress TWICE with perf. 2232 and 2179-2115.
>I need the global performance.
>
>>
>>>One more: I'd like to have extimes about probability that performances match the
>>>true elo on the base of games played (ssdf Like)... any matematician out there?
>>
>>This question I do not understand, sorry.
>
>I'll try to explay this better:
>
>if I play 1 billion game and the result between prog.A (elo ??)  and Prog.B ..
>prog.C prog.D  (and all  have elo 2000) is esactly 50%
>I can say that the elo of  prog A in that set of programs is almost esactly
>2000.
>but what about the same result after only 50 games.
>may be there is some difference between elo and perf. in this case.
>may be i can say, in this case that the  elo of the program A is 2000 with an
>error margin of 50 point (in other words there is probability .9 that the true
>elo is within the range 1950 -> 2050).
>I want to calc the error margin.
>I hope is clear now.
>
>gianluigi


Hi,

in a few days you can download my program ELOStat which was used to calculate
the statistics of the CadaquƩs tourney (look at
http://www.computerschach.de/tourn/frank01.htm)
ELOStat also gives the error margins you mentioned. I will post ist here,
when I am ready.

Frank



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