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Isn't this measurable?

Posted By: Chuck Bower
Date: Wednesday, 6 April 2011, at 8:23 p.m.

In Response To: What makes a has-been? (Casper van der Tak)

I think what (Seidel) means is that the edge of the best player in the world over the average championship level player (or no. 50 in the world, or however you would like to look at the edge of BG semi-gods against BG MMs (mere mortals) - any measure of the skill spread would do - has been lowered so much that playing tournament BG is not longer a winning proposition, taking into account various costs. (emphasis mine)

Is it just the 21st Century, with 'experts' spouting their opinions on ESPN, CNN, "Fair and Balanced" FoxNews, MSNBC, CNBC, and all the European counterparts as if they actually based their views on experimental evidence as opposed to frail (but of course this doesn't describe their) human cogitation?

We have the KG Ratings from the first half of the 90's, effectively pre-bot. Matt Reklaitis in recent years worked on ratings, and the USBGF is now building its own DB in the US. I'm assuming Denmark and England have them, too.

If the 'edge' of the top players really has eroded, couldn't it be surmised by a proper statistical study (which of course would need to minimize the effects of size of the player pool, among other things)?

The good players of the pre-bot era were better in large part because they worked considerably harder on the game than the average players did. I suspect that is still true today.

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