Updated FargoRates are out

Tahnks. I can get some sleep now.

Simeng Chen plays dead even with Earl Strickland @ 778
And is favored over Thorsten Hohmann at 777.



Where was she for the US Open? She would have made some cash.

They misspelled Shane’s name.....
...he lost the van to Nick van den Berg

Cardigan Kid said:

Simeng Chen plays dead even with Earl Strickland @ 778
And is favored over Thorsten Hohmann at 777.



Where was she for the US Open? She would have made some cash.

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I think if they are within 16 or so points, that’s an even match.

vapoolplayer said:

I think if they are within 16 or so points, that’s an even match.

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I'd say there's 20 or better below her that would smoke her on any long race


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vapoolplayer said:

I think if they are within 16 or so points, that’s an even match.

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Not sure if you missed the giant thread on Simeng being able to take on 99% of the top men players because of her Fargo rate, but my post was maybe a poor attempt at sarcasm.

I don't think in ten attempts does Simeng Chen break the top 25 in that field of US Open, but Thorsten finished 9th, and earl 25th (yet Fargorate has them virtually tied).

Maybe I'm wrong, but that's what my gut tells me.

Cardigan Kid said:

Not sure if you missed the giant thread on Simeng being able to take on 99% of the top men players because of her Fargo rate, but my post was maybe a poor attempt at sarcasm.

I don't think in ten attempts does Simeng Chen break the top 25 in that field of US Open, but Thorsten finished 9th, and earl 25th (yet Fargorate has them virtually tied).

Maybe I'm wrong, but that's what my gut tells me.

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Sorry, I didn’t notice exactly who we were talking about. My fault.

I need to look for the thread. Sounds entertaining.

I thought Fargo rates needed to have some sort of connections for it to work. Where has she played enough men to have that rating? Or is that list just list of rating with no accounting for men or women?

I agree, she wouldn’t be that high contending with the male players, but probably deserves the Fargo rating when compared to female players.

Billy Thorpe did not budge up much.. For beating Wu and I think Biado maybe.

gxman said:

Billy Thorpe did not budge up much.. For beating Wu and I think Biado maybe.

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While some things I’m unsure of with Fargo rate, I do like that part. You need to play consistently better for your rating to rise.

We’ve all seen it locally, someone snaps off someone in a tournament or side action they aren’t supposed to beat and now they can’t get a fair game.

Not saying Thorpe isn’t deserving of a higher rating, but I do like the fact that he has to keep playing well to move up.

I just edited the list....... You left one person out..
Top 100 World
Shane Van Boening USA820
Jiaqing Wu CHN820
Jayson Shaw GBR815
Dennis Orcollo PHL811
Pin Yi Ko TPE811
Jung Lin Chang TPE809
Carlo Biado PHI806
Niels Feijen NED804
Alex Pagulayan CAN803
James Aranas Zoren PHL799
Francisco Sanchez Ruiz ESP797
Jeffrey De Luna PHI796
Mike Dechaine USA795
Eklenti Kaci ALB795
Joshua Filler GER795
Ping Chung Ko TPE794
Haitao Liu CHN794
Ronnie Alcano PHI794
Justin Bergman USA793
Lee Vann Corteza PHI793
Albin Ouschan AUT792
Mark Gray GBR792
Efren Reyes PHI791
Yu Lung Chang TPE790
Kun Lin Wu TPE790
Darren Appleton GBR790
Yu Hsuan Cheng TPE790
John Morra CAN789
Warren Kiamco PHL788
Mika Immonen FIN788
Francisco Bustamante PHI787
Johann Chua PHI787
Lo Li Wen TPE786
Kai Lun Hsu TPE785
Jeffrey Ignacio PHI785
Jin-Hu Dang China785
Sky Woodward USA784
Hayato Hijikata JPN784
Ralf Souquet GER783
Antonio Lining PHI783
Naoyuki Oi JPN783
Nick VanDenBerg NED782
David Alcaide ESP780
Karl Boyes GBR780
Alexander Kazakis GRE780
Roland Garcia PHL780
Vilmos Foldes HUN779
Rodney Morris USA779
Ruslan Chinakhov RUS779
Mario He AUT779
Earl Strickland USA778
Siming Chen CHN778
Thorsten Hohmann GER777
Bing Jie Chu CHN777
Ramil Gallego PHI777
Roberto Gomez PHI777
Yang Fan CHN776
Corey Deuel USA776
Nick Ekonomopoulos GRE775
Ching-Shun Yang TWN775
Yukio Akagariyama JPN774
Can Wang CHN774
Han Yu CHN774
Sha Sha Liu CHN773
Satoshi Kawabata JPN773
Wojciech Szewczyk POL772
Johnny Archer USA772
Marco Teutscher NED772
Chris Melling GBR771
Raymund Faraon PHI770
Petri Makkonen FIN770
Aloysius Yapp SIN769
Denis Grabe EST769
Mateusz Sniegocki POL769
Oscar Dominguez USA769
Francisco Diaz-Pizarro ESP768
Fedor Gorst RUS768
Dennis Hatch USA768
Karol Skowerski POL767
Amar Kang USA765
Imran Majid GBR765
Xiao-Fang Fu CHN765
Billy Thorpe USA764
Manny Chau USA764
Andre Lackner GER763
Francis Crevier CAN763
Radoslaw Babica POL762
Mieszko Fortunski POL762
Hao Xiang Han CHN762
Maximilian Lechner AUT762
Josh Roberts USA762
Rodrigo Geronimo PHI761
Miguel Silva POR761
Ga Young Kim KOR760
Jonathan Pinegar USA760
Sandor Tot SRB759
Oliver Ortmann GER759
Larry Nevel USA759
Sebastian Ludwig GER759
Artem Koshovyi UKR758
Kirk Overcash USA 11 lol

Cardigan Kid said:

Not sure if you missed the giant thread on Simeng being able to take on 99% of the top men players because of her Fargo rate, but my post was maybe a poor attempt at sarcasm.

I don't think in ten attempts does Simeng Chen break the top 25 in that field of US Open, but Thorsten finished 9th, and earl 25th (yet Fargorate has them virtually tied).

Maybe I'm wrong, but that's what my gut tells me.

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Your not wrong but you will be told your are and that list don't stop ther either she could get action from several below her add winner breaks that list might be endless


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is there a thread here or a site that explains the Fargo ratings?

Looks like James Aranas dropped from #3 to #10 he plays great but i knew his high ranking was off some.

I think he will drop a bit more with more info.

He's more like a top 50 imo

terryhanna said:

Looks like James Aranas dropped from #3 to #10 he plays great but i knew his high ranking was off some.

I think he will drop a bit more with more info.

He's more like a top 50 imo

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he's not even in the top 100 of the WPA rankings.

arps said:

is there a thread here or a site that explains the Fargo ratings?

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Unless you hold doctorates in both math and computer science, don't bother,,,

vapoolplayer said:

... I thought Fargo rates needed to have some sort of connections for it to work. Where has she played enough men to have that rating? Or is that list just list of rating with no accounting for men or women?

I agree, she wouldn’t be that high contending with the male players, but probably deserves the Fargo rating when compared to female players.

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You should view Mike Page's "Women vs Men" video here: http://www.fargorate.com/videos

arps said:

is there a thread here or a site that explains the Fargo ratings?

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Yes, lots of good information here: http://www.fargorate.com/

vapoolplayer said:

I think if they are within 16 or so points, that’s an even match.

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U can get action on a case by case match.. I have no proof but I have a feeling fargo is starting to fall apart.

AtLarge said:

You should view Mike Page's "Women vs Men" video here: http://www.fargorate.com/videos

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Hmmm, so according to Fargo rating she plays just as good as Thorsten and Earl, and should be spotting a game or two to Dennis hatch, Amar kang, and Billy Thorpe.

I was fairly well a fan of Fargo rating.......but that just doesn’t sound right. Of course I don’t have any concrete proof of it otherwise.

He claims there are thousands of games between men and women in which Fargo rate uses the connections. I rarely hear of many matchups between men and women. He uses Corr as an example, but she is one of the few that you hear about. So I’d be curious where all of these thousands of games come from, unless they come from a very small pool(no pun intended), of women who compete against men. If so, I would think that would be a very fragile number to be basing the connections on.

Again, no proof. But if that were the case, I think you see more women turning out for events like the Open, since according to Fargo, they should have a shot of placing fairly high.