Re: [Bug-gnubg] Suggestion for change of rates/ratings

[Christian Anthon]

On Monday 03 April 2006 14:18, address@hidden 
wrote:
> >My point was not all that clear I can see. What I would like to achieve
> >is.
> >
> >1) That an expert snowie player is an expert gnubg player, and
> >vice versa.
> >
> >2) That an expert chequer player is an expert cube player, and vice
> >versa.
> >
> >3) That people would actually cite the gnubg rates and ratings, which
> >nobody does today.
> >
> >4) That gnubg's system is easily understood and that the numbers
> >translates to snowie's in a straight forward way.
> >
> >  SNIP ... SNIP ...
> >
> >I only suggest changing the translations, not the numbers.
>
> Hmmm ... personally I've never used Snowie so I'm not a fan of adjusting
> gnubg
> rating scheme (trnslation) to Snowie's one. I still think that an
> 'Equiv. Snowie
> Rating' should do the job. More coplicate would be to make it optional :
> use gnubg rating or snowie rating ...
>
> BTW, I'm almost often rated Expert by gnubg : if Snowie rates me above
> that (WorldClass) I think it's rating scheme has a problem :))))
>

Fine by me to keep the numbers as they are. But oh pretty please lets 
divide the cube_error rate by two before translating to 
export/worldclass/... As you can see the cube error rate is twice as high 
as the move and total error rates for the average player.

Christian.
-- 
"I can't promise that I'll try. But, I'll try to try." -- Bart

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