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Why won't other games/sports rating system work for backgammon?

Posted By: leobueno
Date: Friday, 8 July 2011, at 8:22 p.m.

In Response To: How to improve backgammon: Adopt a world ranking system like tennis or golf (Ken Larsen)

I have enjoyed the discussion about implementing a rating system. I agree with Ken that a rating system will improve backgammon in general. The technical issues surrounding the implementation of *one* system to rate *all* players are seriours and interesting. However, I suspect there is agreement that a world-wide rating system will benefit the game.

It looks to me like the problems we have been discussing about having a single system should apply to chess' rating system--which I believe is fairly widely accepted. How did the chess folk overcome the two-populations problem? For that matter, don't these problems also apply to golf, tennis etc.? It seems to me that the same considerations apply, e.g., some people will not want to play agains the experts, so there will be segmentation of the populations of players so that one system may not correctly rank all the players.

Isn't this problem faced by all other games/sports? How many of you get to play golf against Tiger Woods or tennis against Roger Federer on a regular basis? Yet, don't you use the same rating systems?

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