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How crappy?

Posted By: Bill Riles
Date: Monday, 20 July 2009, at 8:21 p.m.

In Response To: How crappy? (David Startin)

I hope this is facetiousness. Or has a well known cheat/braggart assumed another name?

Reminds me of a young acquaintance of a couple of years ago -- he was a very decent player, but his youthful (20 years old or so) exuberance and cockiness dictated he verbally convince all of his skill rather than let his play talk for itself and, if merited, establish his skill.

(again, btw, as a disclaimer, this young guy is not anyone I think any of you would know and, to my knowledge, he has never frequented this forum)

Anyway, at the one major tournament he ever attended, he spent the weeked touting his skill. He told one and all that over his last 1,000 matches (all 7 pts or better) on various on-line servers he had averaged under 3.0. Well, the more he was pressed, the more the story changed. The first change acknowledged it did include a number of short matchs (and even a number of 1 point 'matches'). Then he admitted that it was, well, maybe the average of the best 300 out of the 1,000. Finally, he had regressed to the average of the best 100 out of the 1,000.

After a far less than stellar performance for the weekend he left, not to be seen again to my knowledge.

So, I'm a cynic to most such claims.

I've personally seen (and experienced) Sax, Stick, Woolsey, Neil, MCG, Ray and others put up some great numbers and they probably average much lower than almost anyone. I've heard the same, and believe the same, of those such as Mochy, Lyllhof, Falafel, Tardieu and others. MCG has posted today some very believeable average results of his play.

But to the unrecognized player claiming the kind of numbers stated in the post to which I respond: to borrow a British term, "rubbish".

Again, I can only hope you were being facetious.

Messages In This Thread

• Catching on?
  adambulldog -- Sunday, 19 July 2009, at 9:21 p.m.
  • Catching on?
    Rich Munitz -- Sunday, 19 July 2009, at 10:13 p.m.
  • Catching on?
    Gustavo Goldfarb -- Sunday, 19 July 2009, at 11:52 p.m.
  • Catching on?
    David Rockwell -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 1:07 a.m.
    • Catching on?
      Bill Riles -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 1:16 a.m.
      • Catching on?
        Jake Jacobs -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 2:49 a.m.
    • How crappy?
      adambulldog -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 9:31 a.m.
      • How crappy? *NM*
        adambulldog -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 9:43 a.m.
      • How crappy?
        TarHeelFan -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 11:12 a.m.
      • How crappy?
        Coolrey -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 2:12 p.m.
        • How crappy?
          Chuck Bower -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 2:59 p.m.
          • How crappy?
            Bill Riles -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 3:30 p.m.
      • How crappy?
        Matt Cohn-Geier -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 2:14 p.m.
        • How crappy?
          adambulldog -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 3:01 p.m.
          • How crappy?
            Keene -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 5:23 p.m.
          • How crappy?
            Matt Cohn-Geier -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 6:04 p.m.
            • How crappy?
              Matt Cohn-Geier -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 7:27 p.m.
              • How crappy?
                David Startin -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 7:55 p.m.
                • How crappy?
                  Bill Riles -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 8:21 p.m.
                  • How crappy?
                    David Startin -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 8:29 p.m.
                    • How crappy?
                      David Startin -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 8:34 p.m.
                      • How crappy?
                        David Startin -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 8:35 p.m.
                    • How crappy?
                      Bill Riles -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 9:17 p.m.
                      • How crappy?
                        David Startin -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 10:38 p.m.
                        • How crappy?
                          Chuck Bower -- Tuesday, 21 July 2009, at 1:24 a.m.
                  • How crappy?
                    jdg -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 8:37 p.m.
                • How crappy?
                  Matt Cohn-Geier -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 8:30 p.m.
                • How crappy?
                  Gustavo Goldfarb -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 8:43 p.m.
              • How crappy?
                neilkaz -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 11:16 p.m.
                • For Neil K. -- estimate the median open player
                  Jason Lee -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 11:40 p.m.
                  • For Neil K. -- estimate the median open player
                    Bob Koca -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 11:45 p.m.
                    • GV data
                      David Rockwell -- Tuesday, 21 July 2009, at 1:02 a.m.
                      • GV data
                        Chuck Bower -- Tuesday, 21 July 2009, at 1:30 a.m.
                        • GV data
                          Bob Koca -- Tuesday, 21 July 2009, at 1:55 a.m.
                      • GV data
                        Rich Munitz -- Tuesday, 21 July 2009, at 2:40 a.m.
                        • GV data
                          David Rockwell -- Tuesday, 21 July 2009, at 2:59 a.m.
                          • GV data
                            adambulldog -- Wednesday, 22 July 2009, at 4:39 a.m.
                            • GV data
                              David Rockwell -- Wednesday, 22 July 2009, at 11:46 a.m.
                        • GV data
                          Bob Koca -- Tuesday, 21 July 2009, at 3:04 a.m.
                          • GV data
                            Jason Lee -- Tuesday, 21 July 2009, at 4:14 a.m.
                    • For Neil K. -- estimate the median open player
                      neilkaz -- Tuesday, 21 July 2009, at 8:42 a.m.
                      • For Neil K. -- estimate the median open player
                        adambulldog -- Wednesday, 22 July 2009, at 1:22 a.m.
                        • For Neil K. -- estimate the median open player
                          adambulldog -- Wednesday, 22 July 2009, at 2:50 a.m.
                • 5th percentile of Open players?
                  Rich Munitz -- Tuesday, 21 July 2009, at 3:13 a.m.
              • How crappy?
                Barry Silliman -- Tuesday, 21 July 2009, at 12:17 a.m.
                • One for Barry
                  adambulldog -- Wednesday, 22 July 2009, at 4:07 a.m.
              • How crappy?
                phil Simborg -- Tuesday, 21 July 2009, at 12:23 p.m.
  • Catching on?
    Matt Cohn-Geier -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 3:08 a.m.
  • Catching on?
    Bill Riles -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 3:11 a.m.
  • Catching on?
    Coolrey -- Monday, 20 July 2009, at 2:03 p.m.