[computer-go] CG'2008 paper: Whole-History Ratings

[Christoph Birk]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Matthew Woodcraft wrote:
>>> Beginning players do improve by 4-5 ranks in a short
>>> period of time. We don't all start as dan-level
>>> players, alas!
>
>> Yes, but short time will still be many games.
>
> It might be that most of those games aren't visible to the rating
> system.

That might explain why a rating system may have a hard time
to follow.
Bad data in ... bad data out :-)

Christoph