Sure: if we remove some games, that influences the results. I agree that without both these games, I would not have got these points. But you could decide to remove my 2 victories against mhsmith0 (played during the same time as you) and I would not have got them. And if we remove the 10 games I have more than xorxes, that will also be the case… Also if I had lost one of these 4 games, that would not have given the same results either… So they were not "directly" responsible. That's a complete package.MadMarx wrote: ↑Sat May 19, 2018 6:13 amThis month, CptMike, you are less than 7 points ahead of xorxes. Last month, my Elo was ~500 points, and you beat me twice in GvI while I was trying to get a better sense of how to play GvI at a higher level. Riddle me this, how much of an increase in Elo do you think you got from those two victories against someone with an Elo of 500 (I’m confident many people know the approximate answer, feel free to share as I am curious)? I don’t know the math, but I *guarantee* it was more than 7 points, so if you didn’t play those two games against me then you wouldn’t be ranked #1, thus those two games were *directly* responsible, it’s simple math.
Whatever I am not against the idea to have separate ELO's for GvI and FvA. I am just not sure that it would change anything. But I do underline that the 'weakness' of the GR system is somewhere else.