(Un)Popular Opinion on Fargo Rate

[mikepage]

Are the ratings equal for men and women?
Is a 600 woman supposed to be as good as a 600 man?

Yes.

How about different games?
If someone just plays 9ball and he is a 600, is he still a 600 for 14.1 or 8ball?

If he hasn't played much of the other games, it would not be surprising to see him underperform his Fargo Rating.

How about if someone just plays locally and he is a strong player in his region and he is 700, does that holds on the international scale?

Yes.

Handicapping based on Fargo is games difference need to win but doesn’t work for 9ball

I don't understand this.

 

[alphadog]

If you're on a island with only two other players how does anyone get a robustness???

Robustness is simply games played.

 

[jasonlaus]

Thank you for finally providing a real answer. A few clarifications/points:

1) I did not say his range was 780-820. I said "Whether that means he'd be an 820 or a 780 or what I don't know." Please do not put words in my mouth. I was throwing numbers out there and admitting I don't know what the range is, but that I think he would be substantially lower.

2) Using what you've seen with the real-world distribution of established players is exactly my point. Carving up one other player's record into arbitrary 500-game chunks and then saying that would be a good approximation for how far off Ameer could be is not a good way to actually answer the question.

3) My "flip[ing] the reasoning on its head" was quite deliberate--notice the quotes around "analysis"--and was meant to encourage you to actually try to provide correct analysis rather than the hand-wavy and incorrect "John Morra did X and so therefore Ameer is likely Y." So thank you. There is almost no way Ameer is even possibly an 880 player, hence my comment.

4) So thank you for actually plugging the numbers into your statistical software instead of relying on your own lazy analysis. The next thing I was going to ask you was what his actual expected rating was. 838 is still higher than I thought it would be. If anyone wants to make a bet on what his eventual rating is after 3000 games, I'm happy to take the under on 838.

Are you always an ass?

Make your own rating system since you're so smart. I wouldn't answer a single question from your condescending know it all ass

 

[SSP]

After 45 years of playing, I just learned this a few weeks ago. I always try to end a practice session by stroking in a long, difficult shot. I don't know why I do that, I guess I just like leaving the table with that positive image in my head. Well, a few weeks ago I missed that shot and decided to set it up again. I missed it again, and again, and again. FINALLY, I noticed I was missing the same way (to the right of the pocket) and by practically the same amount every time. That lead me to learn I wasn't lining up correctly over the ball so while I thought I was hitting center, I was actually adding left spin (thus deflecting / throwing my shot to the right). I still haven't quite figured out how to correct that yet though.

Ck out finding YOUR vision center Dr Dave billiards

 

[loggerhead12]

If you're on a island with only two other players how does anyone get a robustness???

There's nothing else to do on the island. They play a lot of pool.

 

[TheGrandWazoo]

Indeed!

This weekend, I played the 537 in 2 races.

Race to 10, 8 ball. I won 10-3
Race to 5, 10 ball: I won 5-4

I went, as a preliminary Fargo, from 433 to 468 with a robustness of 154. The 537 dropped to a 534 (-3) but the most interesting thing was the 505 went to 523 without playing one game.

The island is interesting…