The pool world’s general definitions regarding what constitutes an ‘amateur’ and a ‘professional’ are subject to all kinds of interpretation. Specific rating scales (and there is more than just one of them) have a way of separating ‘amateur’ from ‘professional.’ The math that’s employed to assign these ratings does so on the basis of some very specific, though some might argue limited parameters, although you’d never know it, looking at the formulas. A Fargo Rate, for example, which is based on an ELO rating system that’s used in a lot of competitive games, calculates a ‘score’ that a given player […]
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