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Hi Mikko - The matches from Helsinki open (and a few earlier tournaments) went in error to an inactive record for you. I moved them, and you might be able to see them now in the app if you pull down to refresh. You will see the preliminary rating in another 24 hours or so. I think it will be...

That may be true depending on the way chips are distributed. It is also possible there are perhaps 16 weaker players and 4 stronger players each week and the tournament more frequently being won by a weaker player makes it seem they are preferred even if they are not. This would be a neglect of...

We are talking about a race to 1. If they do that 170 times, the expectation is 160 to 10. We are assuming here both want to improve on that expectation.

I am not saying riding the 9 is not strategic for the weaker player; I think it is. But we tend to fall in the trap in thinking the weaker player is the only one with strategy options. The stronger player has two downside risks. One is the 9-ball flying around. The other is the end of a...

I suspect running out isn't the optimum strategy for either player.

Makes sense. And it explains why Felix Vogel (one month younger that Riku and turns 17 in Dec) also played in U19.

First round matchups with highest average rating

Tom If you email support@fargorate.com we will create profile for you in FargoRate

There are influencers on a different scale in every pool community--often but not always the stronger players. When it comes to how do "we" feel about handicaps, about 7-foot tables, about leagues, about that new cloth, about that tip, about wearing a glove, about carbon fiber shafts, about...

For whether a particular league in a particular area is a good one, handicapping approaches and formats take a back seat to (1) Is the league run efficiently with leadership that deserves and has the respect of the players? (2) Do influencer players support the league and encourage a good...

That sounds brutal. The one-game-at-a-time round robin format actually CAN be good, though. We played it with 4-player teams on two tables. Play everybody twice, so 8 rounds. Takes around 2 hours. So (with home-team rotation) at any time, you're either playing or on deck for one of the tables...

It's hard to know what's going on without seeing the individual record. Here is an example of a possibility. Let's say the player somehow had a starter rating of 325 from a prior league or something like that. And let's say the 60 games had the performance you'd expect of a 500. That would...

FSR was 3rd best European back in 2015. But for some reason people, including Europeans, were very slow to catch on https://forums.azbilliards.com/threads/turning-stone-joss-tour-and-the-mosconi-cup.404955/post-5275717...

We can actually check whether a player has been "outrunning" his rating, and for these UK Open players the answer is basically no. It's not the case they're amongst the small elite and we just haven't caught up to it yet. We DO fail to track improvement well when it comes fast [your Walter L...

Duc Thien Luong is at 777. So if he had one appearance, the 824 appearance average last year would be lowered to 822 [vs 815 this year].

Here, in green, are the 64 players who advanced to stage 2

We--FargoRate-- do something else when we are estimating performance for a small number of games, like one or a few tournaments. Turns out it is pretty complicated. Need to consider likelihood opponent is playing better or worse than his rating and likelihood opponent's rating is running high or...

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