The curtain has been pulled back.
LET THE GAMES BEGIN!
I like the following which I copied from their website (It was so well written, I only edited 3 letters)
"Most handicapping systems or rating systems are easily manipulated. And such manipulation is a serious problem. A small number of unscrupulous players begin trying to cheat any new system. Then when other players hear about this they feel they need to join in or be played the fool. Soon it becomes an industry. Many of those who make it to national events are those most adept at working the system. The XXX seems to be notorious for this based upon newsgroup discussions. While tens of thousands of people play 8-ball every week, there is another group for which 8-ball is only one of the games they’re playing. The secret rating algorithm depends prominently on inning counts. And any player capable of running out against a weaker opponent is also capable bunting balls around for a couple innings like a cat plays with a mouse, padding the inning count while still winning the game. Making the secret, proprietary formula more complex to try to stem this problem is tempting, but it just fuels the game and the true gamers.
The best way to deal with this problem is to devise a system that is open, transparent, and naturally resistant to manipulation. While the possibility of manipulating the system can never completely be eliminated, the fact that every single game against every opponent contributes to a player’s rating makes that manipulation much more difficult. Also, there are a number of features of the system described here that mitigate the problem. A player generally cannot get intentional losses in the system without paying for them. For example, to enter a double-elimination tournament with the intent of losing two matches comes at the expense of the tournament entry fee. Furthermore if a player does this three tournaments in a row, he or she has squandered three tournament entry fees only to find all that nefarious effort thwarted by a single good tournament, where the player plays six or eight matches rather than the two in the losing tournaments.
The biggest deterrent, though, is a consequence of the players believing in the system, which they do. It is clear after using this system for over five years that the vast majority of players strive for a higher rating. Nearly every 485 wants to be a 500. Nearly every 685 wants to be a 700."
I genuinely believe that Fargo Rate will result in more one on one matches being played. So far their is evidence to support my belief.
All you have to do is look at the matches that PoolActionTv is promoting. I believe that the same will be done in the amateur ranks as Fargo Rating becomes even more popular.
At the U.S. Open 10 Ball event that CSI put on, it was really cool to see as each player won a game, how the chances of them winning the match (described in percentages) would change, live on the monitors.
JoeyA
Totally agree I'm pretty psyched about this.
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