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NO!! PLEASE DON'T!!

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Saturday, 28 January 2012, at 8:32 p.m.

In Response To: PR RANKING 2012 (Michael Depreli)

Michael Depreli wrote:

So if player X has two matches and PRs are:

4.0 versus 5.0 2.0 versus 2.5

Then the average PR difference is 0.75

Please, please, PLEASE DO NOT ever calculate and publish such a figure. It will just create the impression that such a figure has some meaning, when it barely rises above the level of colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

The difference in total errors, measured in MWC, is meaningful, and that would be interesting to see.

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