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Subject: Re: how not to calculate performance

Author: Alessandro Scotti

Date: 15:38:55 10/22/04

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On October 22, 2004 at 18:30:34, James T. Walker wrote:

>My take on this is they are using a bad formula or have screwed up the program
>to calculate the Rp.
>The USCF uses Rp=Rc + 400(W-L)/N
>Using this formula in your case above would yield Rp=1400 +400(1-11)/12
>So: Rp=1400 +400(-10)/12  = 1400 + (-4000/12)
>So: Rp =1400 + (-333)  = 1067

I don't know a thing about this formulae, but the program is written in
JavaScript and the code seems to be quite clear (just show the page source), so
it's possible to check it.




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