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How about Masters then? Limited jackpot? 5 pointers?

Posted By: Jason Lee
Date: Thursday, 18 June 2009, at 4:38 a.m.

In Response To: How about Masters then? Limited jackpot? 5 pointers? (Barry Silliman)

Player A plays in Open events exclusively. Player B plays in Advanced events exclusively.

If all players are in the same rating category, and all players start at the same arbitrary rating, wouldn't Player B eventually have a higher rating than Player A, such that the two ratings in this case are NOT indicative of skill differential. Without knowing the caliber of the opposition that A and B each faced, one would see B with a higher rating. If the ratings were in separate categories, would could make a more informed judgement on the merits of the ratings.

If there are two pools of players that never mix, then your hypothesis is correct -- Player B WOULD end up with a higher rating. However, the mixing of the two pools of players would eventually cause the ratings to adjust appropriately.

There IS a big problem about rates of convergence -- if the mixing of these two pools is minimal, and it probably would be, then it would take a LOOOOOONG time for ratings to be "accurate".

JLee

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