How many times are you going to repeat yourself? Every example you give is also limited data. Baseball stats are only recorded for that particular league. That is only a portion of all of the baseball games played. It doesn't include other leagues, or unofficial games, etc.
That's the exact same thing as Fargo choosing a specified number of tournaments, and putting them under the "Fargo League". That would all the sudden legitimize the rating?
You clearly know nothing about statistics. If you needed all of the data about anything in order for it to be statistically accurate, then we wouldn't have statistics about anything in this world.
In QA testing of products on an assembly line, do you think they check every single item that comes off the line? No... they take a random sample that is large enough to reflect all products on the line.
You are trying to point out flaws in something that's based on math and statistics, which you know nothing about. Educate yourself on those subjects before trying to state facts about them, please.
I believe in statistics when you are flipping coins. It's a 50/50 proposition. But in order to have statistics that are meaningful, you need to have all the data. What if baseball didn't keep stats for day baseball games cause the stat guy was sleeping in? Well I can tell you it is easier to hit a baseball during the day. Or what if football stats weren't kept when a team came off a bye week or was on the road.
I also believe in stats when there is enough data. You can tell me a coin is a 50/50 proposition but if I flip it twice and it comes up heads both times, and then I stop collecting data - what am I to think.
If FargoRate is going to be accepted, it is important that as much data as possible be kept. People won't have faith in it and it will be treated like any other handicap system. That is my advice to Mike Page. Posting here that it doesn't matter if they have all or even almost all the data is simply wrong. And again, if you are touting it and promoting it to date with the use of Top 100 lists - well the data should be weighted current. Not on a player that plays 1.6 games a day. How bout Dennis Hatch - another highly ranked FargoRate player -- how many games did he play in 2015? Is he an active player too?