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I'll say Fargorate. I think it would be interesting to approach the predictions 2 ways. 1. Make the predictions all the way through the finals from the original 32 player bracket (like a March Madness bracket), giving extra points for correct predictions in the rounds of 16-finals. 2...

Hence my initial statement that CSI should have waited a year. You're very welcome.

No. You're very welcome.

Nothing's going to change in my league. We send teams every year and will continue to do so, regardless of the ratings. However, we're close enough to drive to Vegas and, as a whole, aren't as concerned with making the financials work to make the trip. I'm going to bet that other leagues...

From my earlier post: My experience has shown me that the biggest negative effect that outliers have is that they lead (and are already leading in this case) to a general distrust of the formula by pool players who aren't familiar with the law of big numbers; which is to say 99% of them...

Mike, Let me begin by reiterating that I'm a huge proponent of the eventual use of Fargo ratings. I would venture to guess that the sum total of all "rated" games by players in my league is less than 200. Those 200 games were played by maybe 6 players. There are about 60 players in my...

RJ, You're oversimplifying the premise. Take Archer A and have him take 10 shots at a target with crappy arrows and then 10 more with perfect arrows. He'll post better results with perfect arrows. In some cases, the better arrows would allow Archer B to post the same or even better results...

You all misunderstand. We report our league results to the BCAPL. I don't know if we use leaguesys or not, but I do know we report. My concern isn't how robust our ratings are going to be against each other. My concern is that they're normalizing our ratings against everyone else with a...

We don't use ratings of any kind in my league.

If your rating is 400, 525 or 625 then you've been assigned the "starter" rating for former Leisure, Open and Advanced division players respectively. If it's something different from one of the starter ratings, I'm fairly certain they're using your league results and adjusting your rating from...

There were 8 hill-hill matches: http://www.matchroompool.com/mosconi-cup/#fixtures

There were 8 hill-hill matches.

To call him "great" though? I just think it's unwarranted. Again, I think he's doing a good job, but I don't think we should be crowning him yet. And I'd bet the Mark would agree with my assessment. Peace

The medal thing made no sense to me either.

MUCH closer than last year. To be completely clear though, there were 8 hill-hill matches during the tournament and the teams split them 4-4.

I'm not knocking you at all Cuaba, so please don't take it as such, but I don't think we can anoint him a "great" coach until he wins. At least he's approaching it systematically, which is more than I can say about the previous coaches.

The US team getting their participation medals. I'd tear that thing off as soon as I got off camera.

Ouschan with a nervy out considering the stakes. Europe wins the Mosconi cup.

Ouschan gets funny on the 6. He's still the favorite to get out from here though.

Sky tries to jump-bank the 3 to a big pocket (the 8 is in front of it), misses the 8 and leaves Ouschan a shot. Looks bad for Sky and the US.