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It's not that dangerous to remove outliers if you have a known distribution. And may be useful if you have a small sample size. For example M8 leagues takes the last 20 match scores, and then drops the best couple matches and worst couple of matches before calculating rating. I'm guessing most...

Yes it is equally likely. Seems that a score line of 24-9 (See above Wu vs Chang) is a pretty unlikely result for two very strong players. In fact, if you enter 24-9 (13 game spot) into fargorate (wu 827 vs chang 803). Then Wu would only win about 1% of the time. I'm guessing this is fine in...

Good info thanks. On another note, do you throw out any results? Lets say two players are equal rating and both established. They play a race to 100 but one guy got sick the night before and plays horrible. He loses 100-50. The chance of this result is incredibly low, close to zero. This would...

I do see that now on their FAQ. Although not that level of detail. Thanks

Does time factor into the rating calculation or robustness at all? For example Wu, Jiaqing is world number one. But we have a lot more recent results from other top players Shane, Dennis, Alex, etc... I'd think that old results (a few years or older) would become less weighted compared to...

how are we not seeing alex vs mika? =( lets watch shane destroy this guy instead

You are right. I should find unrated players, but I'd like to play with my league team. Teams with fully established ratings are going to be underdogs. If they raised the starting rating (at least for upper div) or limited unrated players somehow, it would help. I do go to Vegas for fun but I...

Me and 2 of my teammates are in the 600's and two are in the 500's, one being a choke artist. I don't want to sign up for the upper div with a team rating of 3050 when the cap is 3250. Doesn't seem like a good idea if you want to win. Especially when there are teams with 525's that are...

We were talking about the team tournament and he did not specify. Just clarifying if singles matches would effect ratings before teams. I don't see why they couldn't enter singles results to pick up on some the unrated people. Especially since they have all these results in a computer. Guessing...

Singles results will not adjust ratings for teams?

I've asked multiple times

Doesn't inspire confidence when they avoid questions =(

Will the unrated players adjust during the team event, even with only a handful of games?

So will the team below rob the lower div? Will the unrated players adjust during team matches even with only a handful of games? 700 700 525 (unrated) 525 (unrated) 525 (unrated)

Not sure why they don't raise the starter ratings? The system should adjust

This also shows that starter ratings are way too low and there will be sandbagging teams

Just to be clear, again, FargoRate is a great rating system. Probably the best we've seen in pool. However, right now a team of accurately rated players is at a disadvantage vs a field with a lot of "unrated" players present because of the lower starting rating. There will be teams that are...

This is a huge problem in all ratings systems I've seen. No individual ratings because people will only play teams. They never get a rating. They tried to fix this in the past with "team masters" and such...

If they could give us some reassurance they will be evaluating and watching for teams like this and adjusting them at the tournament, then I'd be feel better about signing up my team. Or adjusting individual ratings during the team tournament. I haven't heard any solutions in this thread accept...

I doesn't have to be likely, you just need one team that steamrolls the division. Why not increase the unrated starting rating or cap the number of unrated players? Afraid of low turnout? What is the thinking behind these decisions? Perhaps someone working for the tournament can chime in...