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Nor are there any Russians. Taking out Russia and Alaska leaves the approx: US - 3.1M sq miles Europe - 1.9M sq miles

Russia accounts for about 6.6M sq miles of that land mass.

Total Prize Pool Here’s an idea that I’d like to see implemented in ALL tournaments; advertise the total prize pool instead of any “added money” amounts. For example, I could advertise the “New 9-ball Open” with a $200 entry fee and a $20,000 total prize pool with a field of 128 players and...

CNS news is cherry-picking the conclusions to support their agenda. Here are some notable statements in the conclusion of the paper that do not fit, and were conveniently excluded from CNS' "most important" conclusions because they didn't fit into the CNS narrative: The strongest statement...

My thoughts in green italics. You've pretty much nailed it. Taek

Isn't there a performance threshold in 8-ball, above which your benefit from being a better player gets exponentially smaller? In other words, in a single game of 8 ball you can't perform better than running 8-and-out. Wouldn't this "runout horizon" be (much) lower on a 7-ft table than a...

Excellent. Thank you Mike.

No hurry on the Robb Saez data. I'm trying to get back to one of the original questions of the thread; namely, will the results from a 100 point gap between a 715 and a 615 mirror the results between a 615 and a 515? As far as the second point, are you saying that the ratings will not converge...

First of all, I don't think there's anything in my post/request that indicates that I'm pressing him for this data. This entire post has been a pretty free exchange of ideas and opinions about Fargo rate and its effect on the BCAPL Nationals. Mike has freely provided data in response to other...

Mike Page, Can you show Rob Saez's results against players 85 points below him? Also, how long would it take for 2 Fargo ratings that were 100 points apart to converge, given identical results? In other words, if Player A started as a 425 and Player B started as a 525, and they played the...

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Mike, Could you show Rob Seaz' results against players rated 85 points below him? Taek

What's the number in the far right column?

What medication are you taking for your Aspergers? QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM You're very welcome

It's not the mathematical soundness of Fargo rate that might lead to its rejection, it's the loss of credibility that Fargo rate suffers from when bugs, like this one, are discovered and then socialized to the relatively-uninformed masses. We've had this discussion already. Q.E.D. You're...

You're doing great work with Fargo rate, Mike. I love the idea that there's a systematical and mathematical approach being applied to to pool. Oughtn't this be shared with the rest of us? Perhaps sooner rather than later? Thanks, Taek

Well, there's stuff like this This was discovered because a small group of us were casually discussing the possible effects that Fargo ratings will have on the BCAPL Nationals. I'd bet that there will be at least one other unforeseen consequence of this magnitude that will rear its ugly head...

This really is not even close to being the same kind of argument. Don't take this as a knock, but your being a mathematician, I would have expected an entirely different sort of answer from you. Pax, Taek Chang

This is a good post, but don't you suppose that the convergence point happens at around 200 games? I would hope, at least, that they simply didn't take the yards of data they have acquired over the years and arbitrarily assigned the point at which they labeled a rating as being robust. Also...

We should sticky this.