Average Fargo rating of 590 for the top 8 in a 600 and under tournament.
In a longish race 7+ I believe a 25-40 difference in points is worth about 1 game on the wire
fargorate.com has an odds calculator. In a race to 11, a 25 point difference gives match odds of 2:1.
Thanks Bob. I should have looked at that.
Do you know what the drama was? No one wanted to come out and say it on the facebook stuff I read.
From my brief and possibly incomplete understanding it was played across three different venues with completely different playing conditions in each.
I watched a little of the stream and the only drama I saw was when there was a one game miscount that was only caught later. The match was restarted and finished without any obvious animosity.
Really good arguments against the probability of a sandbagger's convention. However, I'm pretty sure I can list close to a dozen players I know around the country who have a fargorate that is at least 50 below what I estimate their speed to be.
The bolded part pretty much sums it up. I'm not saying that there are not legitimate sandbaggers, we know there are. But if I took a poll around just my local pool scene, more people would claim they are UNDERRATED. People need to let the math do it's job. Just my opinion.
His argument was about the tournament, not fargorate in general.