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a gnu forum poll?

Posted By: Rich Munitz
Date: Tuesday, 13 October 2009, at 8:59 p.m.

In Response To: a gnu forum poll? (jm)

"DAMN RICH YOUR GONNA SCARE EVERYBODY OFF! BUT i APPRECIATE YOU HAVING THE BALLS TO LIST YOUR ERROR RATE. "

I hope you realize that I did not list my true error rate. In fact, I don't know what my true error rate is. I only know what the error rate is amongst the matches I decided to analyze - which is not all matches.

I agree with David. This site should not be about self promotion (or deprecation). People play online or in live events where matches are recorded. Any error rates that are made public should be based on public matches where anyone can see the results, and the players do not know ahead of time how they played. Not the set of matches a player picks and chooses to submit, or compute averages from.

But if you do want to know how you compare to others, the best way to do that is to play online for a Elo rating. Ultimately, that is a better measure than error rate because it measures your ability to win rather than your ability to play like a bot. Elo is a great measure of results, but you can't learn anything from it as you can from match analysis.

Messages In This Thread

• a gnu forum poll?
  jm -- Tuesday, 13 October 2009, at 7:18 p.m.
  • a gnu forum poll?
    Rich Munitz -- Tuesday, 13 October 2009, at 7:54 p.m.
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      jm -- Tuesday, 13 October 2009, at 8:27 p.m.
      • a gnu forum poll?
        Rich Munitz -- Tuesday, 13 October 2009, at 8:59 p.m.
        • a gnu forum poll?
          Christian Munk-Christensen -- Tuesday, 13 October 2009, at 9:06 p.m.
          • a gnu forum poll?
            Rich Munitz -- Tuesday, 13 October 2009, at 9:18 p.m.
            • a gnu forum poll?
              Wayne -- Tuesday, 13 October 2009, at 10:22 p.m.
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                JM -- Tuesday, 13 October 2009, at 10:30 p.m.
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                  neilkaz -- Wednesday, 14 October 2009, at 12:05 a.m.
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                joe freedman -- Wednesday, 14 October 2009, at 2:29 a.m.
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                garyo -- Wednesday, 14 October 2009, at 5:56 p.m.
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                  Phil Simborg -- Saturday, 17 October 2009, at 2:29 p.m.
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              Christian Munk-Christensen -- Thursday, 15 October 2009, at 8:18 a.m.
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                Stick -- Thursday, 15 October 2009, at 8:47 a.m.
    • I agree that this only leads to dubious ego issues
      David -- Tuesday, 13 October 2009, at 8:41 p.m.
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      Steve Mellen -- Tuesday, 13 October 2009, at 9:06 p.m.
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    adambulldog -- Tuesday, 13 October 2009, at 9:23 p.m.
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      Keene -- Tuesday, 13 October 2009, at 10:37 p.m.
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        adambulldog -- Tuesday, 13 October 2009, at 11:42 p.m.
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          Stick -- Tuesday, 13 October 2009, at 11:55 p.m.
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            adambulldog -- Wednesday, 14 October 2009, at 12:07 a.m.
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    Daniel Murphy -- Tuesday, 13 October 2009, at 10:04 p.m.
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    Barry Silliman -- Tuesday, 13 October 2009, at 10:45 p.m.
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      Bill Riles -- Wednesday, 14 October 2009, at 7:27 p.m.
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    Phil simborg -- Tuesday, 13 October 2009, at 10:51 p.m.
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      JM -- Tuesday, 13 October 2009, at 11:56 p.m.
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        neilkaz -- Wednesday, 14 October 2009, at 12:05 a.m.
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    neilkaz -- Wednesday, 14 October 2009, at 12:04 a.m.
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    Chuck Bower -- Wednesday, 14 October 2009, at 5:07 p.m.
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      Rich Munitz -- Wednesday, 14 October 2009, at 6:42 p.m.
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        Coolrey -- Wednesday, 14 October 2009, at 10:11 p.m.
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      Stick -- Wednesday, 14 October 2009, at 9:37 p.m.
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        Christian Munk-Christensen -- Thursday, 15 October 2009, at 9:20 a.m.
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              Daniel Murphy -- Saturday, 17 October 2009, at 4:43 p.m.
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                Michael Depreli -- Saturday, 17 October 2009, at 4:59 p.m.
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                  Daniel Murphy -- Saturday, 17 October 2009, at 5:00 p.m.
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                Matt Cohn-Geier -- Saturday, 17 October 2009, at 6:07 p.m.
                • Who's afraid of the Big Bad Bot?
                  Daniel Murphy -- Saturday, 17 October 2009, at 6:23 p.m.
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      Michael Depreli -- Thursday, 15 October 2009, at 6:34 a.m.
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    mtuhtan -- Wednesday, 14 October 2009, at 8:52 p.m.
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    Christian Munk-Christensen -- Thursday, 15 October 2009, at 1:18 p.m.