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Backgammon Research-Plea for match files

Posted By: Max Levenstein
Date: Thursday, 1 December 2011, at 7:28 p.m.

As some readers may know, I posted yesterday about some formulas that have been used in the past to predict the outcomes of matches based on player's rating and match length. From all the great responses I got, I have decided to set out on a more empirical research project to attempt to come up with very good and sound measure for these results.

To do this I need to collect many (seriously played) matches between players and analyze their error ratings along with the winner and match length. I have attempted to run these on my own using XG2, however I can only do some many at a time and it is very time consuming.

Here is my plea: send me some of your saved matches from online, etc. (preferably in XG format or some other easily readable format) so I may get a lot of samples for this.

I think this may, if successful, have a great impact on the theory behind rating Backgammon players.

-Max Levenstein

Messages In This Thread

• Backgammon Research-Plea for match files
  Max Levenstein -- Thursday, 1 December 2011, at 7:28 p.m.
  • Backgammon Research-Plea for match files
    tem_sat -- Thursday, 1 December 2011, at 7:42 p.m.
    • Backgammon Research-Plea for match files
      Max Levenstein -- Thursday, 1 December 2011, at 7:52 p.m.
      • Backgammon Research-Plea for match files
        Iancho Hristov -- Thursday, 1 December 2011, at 9:19 p.m.
  • Backgammon Research-Plea for match files
    Max Levenstein -- Thursday, 1 December 2011, at 7:52 p.m.
    • Not analyzed matches? Send to my email
      mtuhtan -- Thursday, 1 December 2011, at 8:20 p.m.
  • Backgammon Research-Plea for match files
    Justin N. -- Friday, 2 December 2011, at 6:19 a.m.