:) my point was that simply totaling total "won by" points after each game is over, or totalling total "won by" points divided by ten after each game should produce the same rank order of results, therefore not punishing anyone.
my comment that one handicap difference in strength, in an even game, roughly equates to 10 game stones at the end of the game, was perhaps too distracting as a rationale (perhaps because it is only empirically true at the kyu level?). the idea that i like about keeping track of number of points won or lost by is that not only could you find the winner, but you could find how absolutely dominant, on average, they were against their opponents. if the variance was low, we might expect to see, say, a less than 20 stone average advantage in points. normalizing by dividing by 10 just scales this down to something "chunkier". s. On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Robert Jasiek <jas...@snafu.de> wrote: > steve uurtamo wrote: >> dividing by 10 for everyone wouldn't change the overall result > > First you describe something like handicap steps, then you describe > something different (a mere division by 10). Therefore > >> so it wouldn't punish anyone, right? > > ...this question cannot be answered. > > -- > robert jasiek > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
