Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 07:23:32 04/26/02
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On April 26, 2002 at 10:11:02, Jorge wrote: >On April 26, 2002 at 09:29:26, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>Given a score from a series of games, y, we can calculate >>the ELO difference between the two players as: >> >>x = -400*log((1-y)/y) >> >>My question is now, how do we calculate the error margins >>on this value? >> >>-- >>GCP > >Maybe I am missing something here, but, this formula is not taking into account >W,L,or D. So for example if total games were y=20, the ELO difference x is the >same for a player that won 20-0 vs. a player that went 10-10? I don't get it. y = score, not number fo games There is a difference between scoring 20/0 (+inf) and 10/20 (=0.5) -- GCP
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