| Mike Murray 2005-01-28, 5:45 pm |
| On 28 Jan 2005 13:54:57 GMT, spin@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Jeremy Spinrad)
wrote:
quote:
>This is a different, more serious situation than a game being voided. If an
>entire club gets inflated, the effects could last for a much longer period of
>time; I believe that this happened in Nevada in the Vaughan era. The problem is,
>many players have most of their games internally within the inflated group; new
>players come and get an inflated rating because of playing in a club tournament,
>and the effect persists. You can't get that from a single game being misrecorded.
I've always assumed there's regional variation in ratings, especially
in areas where few players venture out into other areas to play and
few outsiders come in. So you couldn't necessarily equate the
strength behind a 1900 rating in Great Falls, Montana to the same
rating in Tupelo, Mississippi, assuming these regions fit that
description.
But, as soon as players in the local pool start venturing out on a
regular basis, or something attracts outsiders to venture in, wouldn't
this eliminate the condition pretty quickly ?
I wonder if anyone has computer-modeled this.
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