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I didn't know that!     Wow!  Thanks for the info, Maria, don, and PersianLord!     I learned a lot today.  For as long as I have been playing on Fibs, I have never gotten into the actual list of commands for Fibs.     I guess I always do things backwards.   

socksey



"No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation."  - Fran Lebowitz

And similarly for Dailygammon

http://www.gellie.plus.com/Stats/DG_Ratings_Freq_Dist__Nov_1st_2007_to_Feb_1st_2008.htm

Interesting how both populations have the same starting rate of 1500 but the peak is (of established players, green) is higher.

I noticed these thinner tails too. It is probably the aggregate effect of the gBOTS: they take from the rich and give to the poor.

BTW: the Gini coefficient is less than 0.1; no need for digital Robin Hoods I'd say!

I already posted median. It's somewhere between 1523 and 1525.

Ou, you meant that. Max rating is also good and simple one if the avarage or "real" rating is clearly over 1500 and you have high experience. I would like if fibs would track also the max ratings.

And talking about volatility and luck in backgammon...

"This is IMO a very accurate system and less liable to great fluctuations, as one can only play 70 or 80 matches a year."

Low number of games in year means that flunctuations are small or more accurately slow but they last ages... Good or bad streak could last several years if you are only playing 70 or 80 matches in a year. This is even more clear if you play only couple times a year in high profile live tournaments (lots of players and big prizes). You're bad or good streak could easily last longer then your life time. Luck will cancel out in long run but the run just might be too long.

Yeah, I've gone to a low in the upper 1600s to a high of 1924 (coincidently, the year that mookie was born). I'm sure my true rating is very close to that top number, perhaps even a bit above it, but it would be interesting to see where I average out.

I didn't mean that... I only meant that changes are slow and last long with low number of games. It doesn't have to mean that it is also more inaccurate. FLG ratings seem correlate with fibs ratings and those correlate with analyzed snowie error rate. So I think they're both working fine.

You can't compare the actual numbers because players in flg are on avarage better then in fibs. There seem to be almost no players with under 1500 fibs rating. So most have lower ratings there then in fibs. And there always is those +-100 fluctuations.

I almost never play players rated lower than I am on Fibs.  Often when I do that, I lose, thereby hurting my rating tremendously.     

I have a 43% win rate over vegasvic who is rated far higher than I.  Not bad, but he has taught me a lot.  

Some of the higher rated players on Fibs will not play with me, i.e., Niholympic, Honeygirl_II.  Too bad about that.  We could probably each learn from the other.  Now that resh_lakish has reached over 1700, he refuses to play with me anything but 2 ptrs, if that!     Yeah, I know, they are scared of me.  

Distraction is my middle name, lewssssss. 

socksey



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