| Angelo De Pa1ma 2005-04-07, 6:08 pm |
| Wait a minute. Are you saying that for two 1800 players, the one who has a
2300 performance rating over 3 games gets a higher bonus than one who has it
over 5 games? That doesn't make sense.
"Mike Nolan" <nolan@gw.tssi.com> wrote in message
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quote:
> "Angelo De Pa1ma" <adpspammersgotohell@tellurian.net> writes:
>
>
> If you've read the paper on the website describing the ratings formula,
> you should have noticed that performance rating isn't really a factor
> anymore, it isn't even computed except for provisionally rated players.
>
> The pre-event rating is a major component in computing the K factor,
> and the effective number of games, and the difference in rating between
> the player and each opponent determines the expected probability of
> each game.
>
> The bonus is essentially the same formula, but the maximum bonus available
> drops as the number of games increases.
> --
> Mike Nolan
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