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That is a different Wayne Parker. The one playing is an experienced blackball player from from South Africa who is not on our radar. Here are the biggest opening-round gaps (for players with at least 100 games in FargoRate.). Opponents got 12 games out of 102, a little shy of the expected 15...

A few other youngsters in this tournament,

There will be at least 3 players there...

It can--and has--been done. Whether it is easy and whether it is the best way to cheat are different issues. First, you have to have a huckleberry, a cohort who is also a slimeball. It's not hard to imagine a low-integrity person might run with other low-integrity people. But here you need...

That public airing is what needs to happen and moves us forward. We need to recognize we're all drinking from the same water supply and it's not OK to pee in it.

The public conjecture on this issue is far from matching reality. When someone makes a comment about Salotto being used inappropriately, ask them who in particular they are talking about. All Salotto matches are public on both players' profiles. Check it out for yourself. Most likely...

Sounds like a lousy way to do that to me.

Yeah, I guess we'll see... I saw this post from the Polish contingent yesterday. That's where I got the link.

I found this. http://www.esnooker.pl/turnieje/2023/qo9bc/en/index.php Assuming this is correct, you can see under "players" for main event the usual cast of characters who I think start on October 4 and are in stage 2. There are also these brutal qualifiers called 1st chance, 2nd chance...

The only time World 8-Ball has had a consistent 1st place prize payout is the 9 years from 2013 to 2021, when it was $0. The bump from $60,000 to $75,000 --and the very fact the event is back--is good news

Yes to the opening question--down to the last game in fact https://www.fargorate.com/fargorateblog/archive/couple-interesting-stories-from-2019-china-open-9-ball/

Yes Matchroom European event was a disappointing tournament for Chang. But I think it is best viewed as just a blemish. Because he was unseeded, he instead of having a defacto free ride through the 1st round faced Kun Lin Wu (806) and lost. Then after winning a B-side match 8-2, he lost on the...

These are the players that are amongth the top 128 by Fargo Rating but not by the seed criteria

pretty similar strength

Other good answers. Let's make an example. You are 550 with hundreds of games. You lose 6-7 to opponent who is 350 with 7 games. (Perhaps those 7 games are a 1-6 loss to a 650). What happens tomorrow? (1) Your rating basically unaffected --there is really no new knowledge about how you...

With 100-point gap, lower player expected to win 1 in 10 200-point gap, lower player expected to win not quite 1 in 100.

There are lots of Chip tournaments that go into FargoRate. The two main sources are Ingenpool (budtour) and digitalpool. So I don't know what is going on there.

The algorithm itself has no answer to this question. It is equally content with either. It is also equally content putting Filler at 1000 and Gorst at 995 or whatever and everyone else up 147 points. This is because all the algorithm cares only about rating differences, like the gap between...

[...] We're in the process of building a system to test a few different new approaches to anchoring the ratings. So we'll have more to say when we're further along. To date, we've had a defined list of active players whose average rating we prevent from changing.. We're confident there has...