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Originally posted by RookRAK
akizy's 150 game performance is an impressive 2492
so you calculate:

2496 Ironman31
2492 Akizy
2350 Northern Lad
2183 Archbold

verry interesting ... no shocks though ... i like a shock!

this process could go on for ever ... but if you get more time ... then how about other players of interest such as Bbarr, Weyerstrass, and Woodworm.

can you automate the process to get it for dozens of players?

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Originally posted by flexmore
so you calculate:

2496 Ironman31
2492 Akizy
2350 Northern Lad
2183 Archbold

verry interesting ... no shocks though ... i like a shock!

this process could go on for ever ... but if you get more time ... then how about other pla ...[text shortened]... .

can you automate the process to get it for dozens of players?
I don't know that I'm smart enough to automate it, though it only takes 2-3 minutes per player.

I use a rather low-tech approach - an Excel spreadsheet. I go to the "public games" for the player (finished only w/o miniboard), then copy/paste each of the first 5 pages (for 150 games) into my spreadsheet.

I know there are people who've more automatically extracted data from the site - but I don't know how, so the manual approach is all I've got. Maybe I will ask ouroboros because he seems to have quite a sophistated statistics collection on his clan site.

What might be more interesting than these performance numbers, since the top players play so many games where they are hundreds of points the favorite, would be to extract all games between players rated 2000+, and score it as a mini-tournament.

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Originally posted by flexmore
so you calculate:

2496 Ironman31
2492 Akizy
2350 Northern Lad
2183 Archbold
2340 David Tebb

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2496 Ironman31
2492 Akizy
2350 Northern Lad
2340 David Tebb
2183 Archbold

but akizy has had some strong wins since your calculations ... i bet he comes in as a clear number one now!

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have a look at yozzer, he's been SHOOTING up lately.

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Originally posted by murrow

have a look at yozzer, he's been SHOOTING up lately.
and check out this guy! wow!

http://www.redhotpawn.com/profile/playerprofile.php?uid=155892

fred

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I think Northern Lad is the best on this site!

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thats a crazy statement. Ironman is #1 in the ratings but I think the true number 1 is Akizy

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what are the criteria to be n°1?

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Northern Lad just lost his third game to Yozzer [gid]Game id 1096740 [/gid] there is the link.

Well, Akizy has scored a win and a draw against Ironman31 and that pretty much says it all. I really think for Ironman31 to truly be #1, he has to beat Akizy twice.

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BUT in defense of Ironman, he plays the top ten over and over again, so right now I consider Akizy and Ironman to be spilt #1's I think they both have claim to the number #1 spot

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Originally posted by fierytorment
BUT in defense of Ironman, he plays the top ten over and over again, so right now I consider Akizy and Ironman to be spilt #1's I think they both have claim to the number #1 spot
I hope you can sleep at night not knowing which one is the stronger player .....

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I'm just bringing forth some arguements for and against both. I just think its an interesting debate

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It isn't. I have full respect for both players, and a lot of our top players, but the question of who is "the best" is a bad one in the context of RHP.

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Well, pardon me...... I'm being sarcastic right here.... sir.... do you want me to kiss your ass and take everything you say as the word of God? ðŸ˜