Author: Rémi Coulom
Date: 11:28:44 11/24/03
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On November 24, 2003 at 14:07:27, Robert Hyatt wrote: <snip> >Draws count. That's why the Elo formula specifically includes draws in the >calculation... I considered only the problem of estimating the likelihood that one player is better than the other. Not the estimation of the difference in strength. <snip> >If all you care about is "who is better" then omitting the draws makes >some kind of sense, but it doesn't give any idea _how_ much better one >is than the other. So we agree. I did not care at all about how much better one is than the other. Rémi
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