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The_Jeh
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Arimaa Top-Ten Power Ranking
« on: Sep 26th, 2007, 11:07pm » |
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In many sports blogs, people have fun giving their own rankings. In light of the recent debate about ratings, I undertook to construct my own top-ten ranking. I call it a "power" ranking because I derived the results as objectively as possible, according to a certain system. I constructed a large round-robin matrix out of recent matchups of likely contenders for the top ten and tried to derive from this an ordering of skill level. Also considered to a much lesser extent were regular and p8 ratings. The results below are the fruits of my labor. Some names are current phenoms, and others are sleeping giants. I apologize if you think your name ought to be on here. It wasn't easy, and I had to exclude some very good players. So without further ado, here is my formal ranking for Fall 2007:
#1 Karl Juhnke (Fritzlein)
#2 Jean Daligault (chessandgo)
#3 Toby Hudson (99of9)
#4 Frank Heinemann (Belbo)
#5 Till Wiechers (Robinson)
#6 Paul Mertens (PMertens)
#7 Ned Bent (RonWeasley)
#8 Greg Magne (Adanac)
#9 Omar Syed (omar)
#10 Kazushige Ito (Blue22)
Any questions or comments are welcome.
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mistre
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Re: Arimaa Top-Ten Power Ranking
« Reply #1 on: Sep 27th, 2007, 8:24am » |
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Good work! Can you expand this to Top 25?
Also, I don't know if Belbo should be on there as he hasn't played in over 7 months. There should be some factor for level of activity.
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The_Jeh
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Re: Arimaa Top-Ten Power Ranking
« Reply #2 on: Sep 27th, 2007, 9:26am » |
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Well, top 25 would be way too hard, as there would be far too many matchups to consider.
I figure in seven months Belbo can't have weakened much. I'm sure when he starts playing again he'll be right back up there. What's learned in 938 games isn't soon forgotten.
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PMertens
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Re: Arimaa Top-Ten Power Ranking
« Reply #3 on: Oct 1st, 2007, 4:23pm » |
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naturally I do not agree with that order 
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Fritzlein
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Re: Arimaa Top-Ten Power Ranking
« Reply #4 on: Oct 1st, 2007, 8:24pm » |
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on Oct 1st, 2007, 4:23pm, PMertens wrote:| naturally I do not agree with that order |
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Yes, you realize that for postal play you shouldn't even be in the top ten! But maybe The_Jeh was aiming for a synthesis between postal and live... Of course for live games you should be rated ahead of me.
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