FargoRate robustness for "new" players

stewie

stewie

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I am just curious and not complaining about my rating or handicaps. I didn't play much for 3, 4 years and now played my first tournament, which was entered. I can see the 2 matches, but my robustness is 22. I thought each point would be one game? Is this a "new entrant" boost?

I like the concept to track, measure how I play and hopefully see some progress down the road.

Another question for the NYC crowd: which tournaments enter their results? House tournaments at Skyline, Steinway's, ...? Joss Tour? Predator Tri-State? Are there rules as per what tournament can or should enter and which not? For example, Thursdays at Cue Bar is a different handicap system, so, those should not be entered, right?
 
FargoRate only looks at individual games, not matches.

You’ve played a total of 22 games.

Some tournaments and leagues submit games to FargoRate and some do not.

If a league is using something other than FargoRate to handicap, they won’t be reporting the results to FargoRate…
 
Anything less than 200 games is not an established Fargo rating. You should continue to rely on existing handicaps (USAPL, ABCD, APA, Mhet' Vergera's Pro/Am tourn-house leagues), and known player ratings in the community to cross-check.

We can't answer for Jennifer, Ambi, Jose Burgos, John Leyman or Mhet's policy on reporting match results to Fargo.
 
I played my first Salotto match ever with my girlfriend last week. I may have been drinking🥴. And lost 3-0. Now my Fargo is -90!!! I didn't think that was possible! Hers was unchanged at 350. I think mine was 497 before, Fargo made me a profile after I e-mailed them and I'm assuming they based it off of my APA handicap as I have never had a FargoRate after playing for 25+ years.
 
libtrucker said:
I played my first Salotto match ever with my girlfriend last week. I may have been drinking🥴. And lost 3-0. Now my Fargo is -90!!! I didn't think that was possible! Hers was unchanged at 350. I think mine was 497 before, Fargo made me a profile after I e-mailed them and I'm assuming they based it off of my APA handicap as I have never had a FargoRate after playing for 25+ years.
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Don't feel too bad. It took me 27 years to break into the positives.
 
libtrucker said:
I played my first Salotto match ever with my girlfriend last week. I may have been drinking🥴. And lost 3-0. Now my Fargo is -90!!! I didn't think that was possible! ...
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Negative ratings have been discussed here before, I think. It seems that FR limits them to no lower than -90, but the basic math of the system allows even lower negatives. -100 would mean that you win about 1 game in 25 against your 350 girlfriend. You are presently way, way below a 1 in 25 average.
 
libtrucker said:
I played my first Salotto match ever with my girlfriend last week. I may have been drinking🥴. And lost 3-0. Now my Fargo is -90!!! I didn't think that was possible! Hers was unchanged at 350. I think mine was 497 before, Fargo made me a profile after I e-mailed them and I'm assuming they based it off of my APA handicap as I have never had a FargoRate after playing for 25+ years.
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How does that app work , do you really have to pay to be able to submit the scores to Fargo?
 
Texas Carom Club said:
How does that app work , do you really have to pay to be able to submit the scores to Fargo?
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libtrucker said:
Yes, I think it was $1.00 for the Salotto host, and $1.99 to submit to Fargo. Still cheaper than an APA match....
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Thanks

Or 5 a month, not terrible if it gets used more than once a month.

I have a regular sparring mate I'd want to use it with if he's Kool I'm in
 
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