Life In 19x19

hyperpape wrote:My recollection is that Dr. Bae Taeil's system does a lot of "stuff" in terms of weighting to adjust an ELO style calculation. I don't recall ever seeing an English language discussion of whether that "stuff" makes sense or not.

I'd really love to know more about his method. Does anybody have any reference (even in Korean?). It seems my system ranks Japanese players consistently higher than his ranking.

Rémi

Gogameguru gave a link to a a paper he wrote in English, I believe, on the post "30 of the world's best go players" 2011-2012

http://english.baduk.or.kr/sub03_04-1.htm

The comparison of the theoretical winning rates against the actual winning rates is also very interesting.

Elom wrote:Gogameguru gave a link to a a paper he wrote in English, I believe, on the post "30 of the world's best go players" 2011-2012

http://english.baduk.or.kr/sub03_04-1.htm

The comparison of the theoretical winning rates against the actual winning rates is also very interesting.

Thanks for your reply.

I had noticed the link, but I am not sure this is the algorithm that was used. That page mentions a variation of incremental Elo. But that does not fit with the "repeat calculation" description of trout.

I believe incremental rating methods cannot work well when a strongly connected group of players (Japanese pros) play rarely against the rest of the world.

I don't see a Korean bias from Dr.Baeil's ranking system. Tuo's ranking did go up significantly. I dont think he did great on international tournament so what do you expect? Only one thing that all the ratings agree upon: PJH is no.1 right now.
Personally I see KeJie becoming no.1 pretty soon though.