John Morra joins the 800 Club

jnwilliams said:
I don’t understand Fargo - how is 863 63% better than 800? Wouldn’t that be like 10.5% better?
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The way I understand how Fargo rates work, for every 100 points difference, the higher skilled player is predicted to win twice as many games (or 100% more). So a 63% difference means the higher skilled player is predicted to win 63% more games.
 
Morra works diligently at his game. Pure class too. Be nice to see him able to play more big events and take a few down.
 
George the Greek said:
I wonder if John's dad Mario (710 FR) would be a good match against him?
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Mario stopped playing tournaments for the last few years, maybe 5 or 6 years, because of family commitments. He’s just started playing again the last few months.

Back when they were both playing tournaments in Ontario, Mario and John would occasionally play each other. Unlike Ernesto Dominguez with Oscar, Mario does not just forfeit to John. He fights tooth and nail to try to beat him (but can’t beat him anymore).
 
jnwilliams said:
I don’t understand Fargo - how is 863 63% better than 800? Wouldn’t that be like 10.5% better?
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If you want to understand FargoRate, the FargoRate website has a FAQ page with lot of info.

Mike Page, who invented FargoRate, has posted some explanations here. He also has posted some videos on YouTube.

If you know chess ratings, FargoRate is a lot like that, but designed to be more accurate.

As mentioned above, if an 800 plays a 700, they will win twice as many games. If a 700 plays a 600, they will win twice as many games. If a 600 plays a 500, they will win twice as many games. That's on average. It is all based on the difference in ratings, and all those differences are 100 points. And if a an 800 plays a 500, that's three hundreds apart so the ratio of wins is 2*2*2 = 8 and the 800 will win 8 out of 9 games.

The FargoRate website also has a probability calculator where you can stick in the ratings and match length and see the chance for each player to win the match. If an 800 plays a 770 a race to 11, the better player will win 68.5% of the time, on average.
 
Bob Jewett said:
If you want to understand FargoRate, the FargoRate website has a FAQ page with lot of info.

Mike Page, who invented FargoRate, has posted some explanations here. He also has posted some videos on YouTube.

If you know chess ratings, FargoRate is a lot like that, but designed to be more accurate.

As mentioned above, if an 800 plays a 700, they will win twice as many games. If a 700 plays a 600, they will win twice as many games. If a 600 plays a 500, they will win twice as many games. That's on average. It is all based on the difference in ratings, and all those differences are 100 points. And if a an 800 plays a 500, that's three hundreds apart so the ratio of wins is 2*2*2 = 8 and the 800 will win 8 out of 9 games.

The FargoRate website also has a probability calculator where you can stick in the ratings and match length and see the chance for each player to win the match. If an 800 plays a 770 a race to 11, the better player will win 68.5% of the time, on average.
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very clear explanation. Thanks for that
 
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