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We need to define what we are measuring before collecting statistics
Posted By: Rich Munitz In Response To: We need to define what we are measuring before collecting statistics (David Rockwell)
Date: Tuesday, 6 October 2009, at 3:39 a.m.
"Richard Munitz mentioned how he became a world class player while he wasn't playing in ABT events."
Not exactly.
I may have been way under the radar in 2006 since I hadn't played any ABT tournaments in about 3 years and had never played more than perhaps 2 events in any year before that. However, I was not without prior ABT results. Back in the late 90's I had won an ABT intermediate event and cashed twice in Vegas in the Intermediate division. That was enough to make me move up to Open. Nobody told me to. I just knew it was time. In the early 2000's, I cashed twice in ABT Open events before I vanished from the scene.
That said, I have no doubt that had I showed up in 2006 and entered the intermediate division, that nobody would have thought to look up these results and nobody would have questioned it at all until I had managed to cash or perhaps win several times in intermediate. Fortunately, I had the good sense to accomplish this in the Open division that year.
But as Phil says, there are no rules to govern this. And there should be. Something. The only method today is that some director happens to recognize a name (or someone complains loud enough) and they put their foot down (right or wrong) and it applies for their event and only their event.
I believe that the efforts in stats collection will help to make these decisions less arbitrary and more based on a more robust set of results.
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