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Subject: Re: PGN analysis tool suggestion (related to Elo calculation)

Author: Rafael Andrist

Date: 11:28:40 02/23/06

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On February 23, 2006 at 08:59:20, Uri Blass wrote:

>On February 22, 2006 at 15:45:12, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>It would be nice to know if a particular opening position underperforms or
>>overperforms.
>>
>>By that I mean, given the Elo of the players that reached the position, and the
>>Elo of the opponents that reached the position, did the position for the side to
>>move exceed expectations or fall below expectations?
>>
>>I don't think it is as simple as taking the average Elo of the side to move and
>>the average Elo of the opponent side, and then examining the win percentage and
>>seeing if it meets the Elo estimate within error bounds.
>>
>>I guess that we would have to examine all of the pairs.
>>
>>Does any statisical genius have a solid model for this analysis?
>
>I think that you can simply calculate the expected result for every pair based
>on the average result of players with that rating difference.
>
>you can caluclate the sum of the expected results and compare to the sum of the
>obsetved results.

This works for a good first guess. But you assume the standard deviation for all
the players' ELO is the same, which is of course not the case.





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