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Game Courier Ratings. Calculates ratings for players from Game Courier logs. Experimental.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Jan 9, 2006 03:55 PM UTC:
Roberto, please carefully read the first paragraph on this page and the
warning above the 'Game Courier Ratings for *' table. You will see that
we are in agreement on the point you raised, but it is not relevant to an
evaluation of the method used to rate players here.

Christine, I will refer you to an earlier comment of mine dated
2006-01-08. We are in agreement that game ratings should be reserved for
games intended to be rated. But, for the time being, I am using what data
I have, which are the logs of previously unrated games, to test the method
I am designing to rate players.

What I wish to focus on right now is whether this method is an accurate
enough measure of relative playing strengths between players. In this
respect, it is looking good to me, but there might be ways to tweak it.