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Subject: Re: More WMCC and ELO reflections

Author: Stephen A. Boak

Date: 13:19:36 08/26/00

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On August 26, 2000 at 16:01:51, Uri Blass wrote:

>You can start with equal rating for all the players not inclusing players like
>Xinix and paque Expert(if you can divide the program to 2 teams when team A of
>program got 100% against team B then it is better not to include team B and in
>the case of the last WCCC there were 2 programs in team B)
>
>After it assume the result of the tournament happens again and again 1000000
>times in a row and calculate the exact rating of all the players based on this
>assumption.
>
>Uri

Yes that method would work, as one example.

I understand the iterative method for deriving (after the fact!) initial ratings
that would equal final ratings.

I may run some calculations on this, when I get some time.

--Steve



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