Curious-Do Fargo ratings differ by location?
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Open play is the only system that is tamper proof. It is play your best, or be elimated.
Today in Arizona the better players, face the same discrimination.
Most Tournments are for the recreational players.
As Fargo increases, so do opportunities to compete diminish.
There are unknown thousands who can play including the only play good enough to win strata. No way Fargo can find them much less quantify the ethic.
you can have handicap tournaments that aren't capped. problem is if races become longer for the high fargo participants, but that's a time constraint issue. i too think capping is detrimental
hate to give iusedtobe any credit(ha!!!) but i do like his idea of having random FR caps. Say a spot has monthly/weekly tourn's, have the cap be chosen at random instead of always going with the same FR caps. no cap is the best but as you said could run into time/scheduling issues.
If you don't know the level of the players your friend played, then it's not possible to say anything. I find the Fargo ratings, for honest players, to be pretty equal across state lines.
I am not even a 600, and when I visit random pool halls, on any random night I am almost always of the top 4 or even top 2 guys there even with a full house of a league going. I was in Jacksonville a month or so ago, went to a new pool hall for me there to hang out with someone I met through Reddit, there were only 2 people in the room with a higher rating than me, and from watching them, I would have an even match with them. But in another pool hall in the same city in their weekly tournament, I was surrounded by 600-700 rated players and was lucky to go 2-2 in the place. Who you play makes a big difference in how one thinks the area is. A 650 going somewhere will have an easy time beating most players in the area if I can do it as a 562.
absolutely
texas is a pretty big state
ive played a few locals in the low 700s
you never get to see a ball
and ive played 700s from across the state where i saw the table several times in a single rack
ive played a few locals in the low 700s
you never get to see a ball
and ive played 700s from across the state where i saw the table several times in a single rack
where?
That’s part of the beauty of FR. It doesn’t matter how you play, only whether you win or lose.
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Spot on!
10 per million population sounds about right.
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I know a crafty old TW coach (690+) that I have seen regularly take money from 800s when they come to town for competitions (China Open, yuan8 Open, Chinese table stuff). In fact, I have not seen him lose a match for money in the two years I've been playing. One of the best safety players I have ever seen in person. Granted his rating is probably based on the fact he is playing for coins and not trophies.
Its been this way before FargoRate, before Arizona Rate, before local handicaps, before APA banger handicaps, before any rating system.
Everyone and their mother always knew who the good players were, and they stayed away. People don't like to be pounded on. They want a game where they are the favorite or not too big an underdog. That's why the top players in any room all pumped up the poker machine instead of gambling, because they could rarely get any action.
Not at all. The Arizona rating approach was quite good. It also required organization, cooperation, and work.
They did a fine job rating the players who played regularly in AZ. And the primary use of the ratings besides ego badges was capped tournaments, something for which there has always been an interest in many if not most areas.
There was also no shortage of people who played 8-9 speed (say, 570-650) from NM, CO, NV, CA, and snowbirds from MN, WI, Canada, etc who were on the list as 6's or lower. This was no big deal for the weekly $10 6 & under tournament so long as most weeks none of those players were around.
But if, for instance, you tried a $100 entry 6 & under tournament with added $$, you'd hear a giant sucking sound as the winds from all directions shifted toward Phoenix.