Greg Strong wrote on Sat, Apr 28, 2018 09:11 PM UTC:
Thanks for the explanation and doing these expirements. Since aging out games just adds draws and draws affect the scores not only for the player but for other players as well, I agree that this is undesirable. I don't fully understand H. G.'s approach but it may have provided better results since it alters the number of games as well. But this would be a more dramatic change and given your complex two-pass system it might well have undesirable effects also. In any event, I'm certainly not going to ask that you put any more time into it.
Regarding the age filter, though, I think this might not be working as expected. I ran the calculation for the last 365 days and it shows David Paulowich playing 44 games but he hasn't been active here in years.
P. S. I sent you an email regarding the abstract piece set.
Thanks for the explanation and doing these expirements. Since aging out games just adds draws and draws affect the scores not only for the player but for other players as well, I agree that this is undesirable. I don't fully understand H. G.'s approach but it may have provided better results since it alters the number of games as well. But this would be a more dramatic change and given your complex two-pass system it might well have undesirable effects also. In any event, I'm certainly not going to ask that you put any more time into it.
Regarding the age filter, though, I think this might not be working as expected. I ran the calculation for the last 365 days and it shows David Paulowich playing 44 games but he hasn't been active here in years.
P. S. I sent you an email regarding the abstract piece set.