you can use a multi-d ranking system to predict the outcome of a contest between two players.
this is good for handicapping, for instance. this will not necessarily create a linear ordering of the players, as you've mentioned, but it is still quite useful, and radically more efficient and useful than storing the n^2-n per-pair results. s. ----- Original Message ---- From: Vlad Dumitrescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: computer-go <computer-go@computer-go.org> Sent: Sunday, January 6, 2008 5:12:56 PM Subject: Re: [computer-go] Odd results on 19x19 On Jan 6, 2008 11:00 PM, Don Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The idea of a non one dimension rating model is interesting. If you > decide to pursue this I can give you the CGOS data in a compact format, > 1 line per result. Hi all, I'm not sure I get the whole picture regarding multi-dimensional ratings. How can you compare two players with a 2-dimensional rating? You can't, so how would one use this rating? In my book, a rating's goal is to make things comparable... best regards, Vlad _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
