My fargo rate is not accurate

I've beaten Rodrigo Geronimo 7-5, Gone hill-hill with Ernesto Dominguez and Rueben Bautista and beaten other players ranked above 730.

None of those counted towards my fargo.

My fargo is like 560 currently...lol..

If anyone thinks that's accurate, they haven't played me...


Jaden

p.s. granted it still doesn't have a robust rating, but it's still inaccurate.

560 sounds too high ......... :grin:
 
Edgie Geronimo is a 763 last I checked. What are the odds of a sub 600 beating him 7 to 5?

I'm not implying anything other than that my Fargo rating as it stands is not accurate or even close to accurate. In competition I'm probably high 6s to low 7s.

Jaden

OK he's currently 98th in the world at 760

The odds are about 95% for a loss. I would say 100% but you never know, he could come down the flu or lose a limb while we are playing :thumbup:

Seriously, your FargoRate is around the same as mine and from the sounds of it, you would slaughter me.
 
Yeah..

The odds are about 95% for a loss. I would say 100% but you never know, he could come down the flu or lose a limb while we are playing :thumbup:

Seriously, your FargoRate is around the same as mine and from the sounds of it, you would slaughter me.

We both played perfect in that match. I won most of the safety battles which ended up being the difference.

I had 4 bnr's and he had 3.

Jaden
 
Beat some of the best players, tied for 5th and no Fargo credit.
Do they pick and chose who gets rated. Sounds like a flaw.

What is reported to Fargo depends on whoever is keeping score at the event. They are not magically watching us in every pool hall LOL
 
We both played perfect in that match. I won most of the safety battles which ended up being the difference.

I had 4 bnr's and he had 3.

Jaden

Yeah, and I am happy with one and ecstatic with 2 bnr's in a match. From the sounds of it you should be high 600's pushing 700 would be my best guess. Maybe even low 700's.
 
I don't need some bogus rating system to tell me who is allegedly the better player. I take no one serious who swears by this garbage.

"bogus" "garbage", right there your opinion is useless to go by since you are clearly biased against it. If you were asked about some person and you started calling them names, right away I would go look for a second opinion.

Please point out where the rating system is bad with the correct data for the player entered. All it is is math. You don't trust math? Or are "feeling" better than data?
 
Keep .practicing, lil buddy.

You will get there!!
At derby city 9ball I beat orcollo 9-6, melling 9-8 and Bergman 9-8. These matches were on video. But because the tournament director didn’t take match scores the scores will not be used towards Fargo Ratings. But meanwhile a shit tournament in my hometown played on gaffed up buckets (one match on a Robertson and the next match on a gold crown) will be used towards Fargo. This is a joke.
 
I'm wondering if using the match results (score or no score) would be helpful for the Fargo rating system. Just the fact that someone wins a match over someone else seems to be useful information to me. Whether the score was 9-7 or 9-5 is less significant then the fact that they won the match imo.

Anyway, what do I know? :thumbup:
 
We both played perfect in that match. I won most of the safety battles which ended up being the difference.

I had 4 bnr's and he had 3.

Jaden

Dude... I just checked mine and I am a 578. You should be well up in the 600's. That being said...... lets match up. :)
 
I'm wondering if using the match results (score or no score) would be helpful for the Fargo rating system. Just the fact that someone wins a match over someone else seems to be useful information to me. Whether the score was 9-7 or 9-5 is less significant then the fact that they won the match imo.

Anyway, what do I know? :thumbup:

Yeah, I get what you're saying, kinda like extra credit for getting it done when you need to....

We treat every game the same. I believe in the long haul, over lots of matches and games, this is the right way to do it. One of the advantages of having lots of data is we can actually go back and test ideas like this: do certain players have tendencies to win matches incommensurate with their ratings? We test lots of things like this. We also develop an intuition from doing lots of tests like these, and my gut tells me the answer is no.
 
Yeah, and I am happy with one and ecstatic with 2 bnr's in a match. From the sounds of it you should be high 600's pushing 700 would be my best guess. Maybe even low 700's.

I take that back, just watched some YouTube matches. I think they have you rated correctly :thumbup:
 
Yeah, I get what you're saying, kinda like extra credit for getting it done when you need to....

We treat every game the same. I believe in the long haul, over lots of matches and games, this is the right way to do it. One of the advantages of having lots of data is we can actually go back and test ideas like this: do certain players have tendencies to win matches incommensurate with their ratings? We test lots of things like this. We also develop an intuition from doing lots of tests like these, and my gut tells me the answer is no.

Okay, if I get any other good ideas I'll let you know. :p
I do like the idea someone offered that by sending someone to record scores at major events you would be gathering a lot of useful data. I'm willing to offer my services for this position. I still like to watch good pool and I'm currently unemployed. :smile:
 
I care only for 2 reasons. 1. What if one day there is a invitational tournament that goes by Fargo. 2. What if it somehow lowered my chances of being chosen for mosconi cup. Actually 3 reasons. 3. This rating system is supposed to be accurate. So when I offer the last 2 to a player that is 20 points higher than me for whatever you wanna bet the numbers people behind this should put their money where there numbers are lol.
 
I care only for 2 reasons. 1. What if one day there is a invitational tournament that goes by Fargo. 2. What if it somehow lowered my chances of being chosen for mosconi cup. Actually 3 reasons. 3. This rating system is supposed to be accurate. So when I offer the last 2 to a player that is 20 points higher than me for whatever you wanna bet the numbers people behind this should put their money where there numbers are lol.

Don't worry Donny. If I'm ever the Captain I'm picking you! I like the guys who can come with it under pressure. They're in short supply around here. :thumbup2:
 
I'm wondering if using the match results (score or no score) would be helpful for the Fargo rating system. Just the fact that someone wins a match over someone else seems to be useful information to me. Whether the score was 9-7 or 9-5 is less significant then the fact that they won the match imo.

Anyway, what do I know? :thumbup:

Over time you will get a much more accurate ratings with scores than with just win/loss numbers.

If I lose to SVB every time over a year, but the scores are 9-7, 9-7, 9-6, 9-8 would that not make my skill different than if I lost 9-4, 9-4, 9-2, 9-3 don't you think? In one case I can be a 750, in the other a 700. Remember this is over time, statistics, not short term variances. Sure a 750 can lose to someone badly a few times, but not in the long run vs a lower ranked player. The scores will be closer.

Fargo is almost like if you kept track of the AccuStats scores for players in every match they played and just did an average. In fact I am thinking if you did do that, you will find the two ratings will match up pretty well.
 
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Over time you will get a much more accurate ratings with scores than with just win/loss numbers.[...].

Yes, I don't think Jay is suggesting ignoring the scores. I think he is just suggesting NOT ignoring the match winner.

So, for instance, suppose we play 3 sets with scores

11 - 7
5 - 11
11 - 9

To FargoRate the score is 27 - 27 and these performances are a wash. But I'm going home with some of your $$. One way--just as an example-- to account for the win-when-it-matters idea is to award an extra "game" for the match win itself. Then the "scores" would be

12 - 7
5 - 12
12 - 9

28 - 27 total

This is the kind of thing we can try with a big amount of data for a training set and then see whether the resulting modified Fargo Ratings do a better job predicting match wins in other data than do the virgin Fargo Ratings.
 
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