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Subject: Re: Junior - Crafty NPS Challenge - a user experiment

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:

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>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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