EPTFor me best at elo ranks -/- most dominant players. By a huge margin.
Still amazing stuff, though..
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PhilGood2DaY
Germany7424 Posts
For me best at elo ranks -/- most dominant players. By a huge margin. Still amazing stuff, though.. | ||
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FragKrag
United States11556 Posts
Well, since Jaedong lost to Frozean, so much for breaking oov's record. | ||
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StylishVODs
Sweden5331 Posts
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Darkblade2519
United States80 Posts
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ShaLLoW[baY]
Canada12499 Posts
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disciple
9071 Posts
On February 17 2008 10:04 gravity wrote: Given that ELO is a measure of skill, not "dominance", this isn't necessarily wrong. The best players today are probably at least as good as Fischer in an absolute sense, and probably a bit better thanks to modern knowledge, while the average non-studying player isn't any better. It's still possible there's inflation but I'm not sure it's ever been clearly proven. I disagree...if you have very high elo, you can make it bigger only winning more and more games...for example (again chess) Kasparov...his elo was above 2800 (peak at 2845) . with this elo he couldnt afford to lose even a single game in the tournaments because the average ELO was 2750-2760. So to get higher he must win against all of the even a draw is not enough , but if the average elo is 2780-2790 it wont be so hard to keep a high ELO. Besides you can only guess if Kasparov in 1998 is better than Fisher in 1972 | ||
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PhilGood2DaY
Germany7424 Posts
Like you are not much more skilled than anyone else but your ranking is much higher- that just sucks | ||
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ForAdun
Germany986 Posts
On February 17 2008 22:54 MaGic~PhiL wrote: dont you realize that elo has one BIG problem : Its very very important when u start and also there are times when you are higher than anyone else thats is just not worth playing anymore, acutally. Like you are not much more skilled than anyone else but your ranking is much higher- that just sucks But if you lose some of your ELO and you don't get them back immediately you realize there's a problem that you need to solve. This is why ELO is a very good system. And if you got the highest ELO ranking and you manage to keep it then you can safely say you're not doing anything wrong which makes you more confident into your knowledge about the game. Means when you fall you can later climb back if you remember what you did so well in the past. PS: ELO ranking is perhaps the most accurate one in the world. | ||
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jonhan
Australia14 Posts
In this case, Jaedong will be the highest rated player (if he happens to get the highest ELO rating which now it doesn't seem he will be getting), but it's a fallacy to say he's the single most dominant player in history because of his ELO. | ||
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