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Yes, but the conversation about sandbagging is off point. The issue here is un-established players entering tournaments with artificially low ratings because of an incorrect (or dishonest) low starter rating. Un-established players should play at the higher of their starter rating or actual...

Simple: 2/3 of the players are unestablished. No business can disenfranchise 2/3 of its customer base. However, one would think switching to an established-only format would see a whole bunch of players suddenly become established.

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Good deal. Thank you doing that. SWRLE out.

Yes you get a completely different set of assignments and tournament results based on 1) how you assign the starter rating for a player 2) where you set the starting rating for a division, and those in combination with 3) the weighted average formula used to combine starter ratings with actual...

Lowering the robustness requirement encourages sandbagging and barring unestablished players altogether would probably destroy participation. Why not simply drop starter ratings and put unestablished players in the divisions where they belong?

Actually it's an interesting marketing question. We see customer retention incentives all the time when a business is concerned about loss its customer base or is trying to capture some new target customer. 2nd chance tournaments being an example. Certainly not something Fargo would try to...

Are you making an argument that people who haven't cashed for a long time in their division or haven't improved, or may actually be declining year over year, should be lowered into an easier division?

I too mean no disrespect to Fargo, CSI, Mark, Mike, Robert or anyone working hard to make pool better. I also apologize for any harsh comments about people ducking the questions or knowingly playing in the wrong division or people making honest mistakes. I am a Fargo supporter and BCA supporter...

I don't think you are switching doors when you should be. Some people? A few people? Far fewer? I don't think 27 unestablished players sweeping 27 out of 32 top spots is "a few." I don't think moving 7 Gold level players who are known to be Gold level players before the tournament into sweeping...

There you go jumping to conclusions again

You are not crying. You are just arguing with facts and first hand knowledge with experts stuck with an aversion to admitting and correcting flaws in their system. Ironically, no one is bashing the Fargo system or CSI's intent to make the divisions as fair as possible. They are simply pointing...

Yes by all accounts he had a great tournament. All the data before BCA supports putting him in Bronze at 400. Playing at a 610 level throughout the tournament is a stunning achievement indeed. My only questions would be why retain that 400 starter rating at this point and what division would he...

How true! But that has nothing to do with this discussion.