Hi David, Good thoughts. I can easily increase the delay, it a configuration file change. So I'll do that. If you are "yellow" you will stay on for a few days instead of a couple of hours.
I am strongly considering the possibility of rating the games every day using bayeselo. I could conceivably rate them many times per day if I wanted to, but probably not after every game. Then I would have a page similar to the all-time list, but only showing programs currently active (played at least 1 game in the previous 30 days.) Bayeselo has the advantage of showing confidence. Of course each month we have ALL programs that have played more than 200 games and I would keep that. So you would be on one or both lists at all times. I probably would still not rate players that have played less than some small number of games, perhaps 20. (Actually, everyone gets rated, it's just a matter of what is displayed and I don't want to display programs that have played 3 games all wins which may have a ridiculously high performance rating.) I also considered using bayeselo but computing the performance rating minus the confidence and ordering them that way. This would favor programs that have well established ratings over ones that just had a lucky streak. The highest rated program otherwise could be significantly overrated and I hate ranking them at the top when the may not deserve it. - Don On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 08:51 -0700, David Fotland wrote: > First, thank you very much, Don, for giving us a reliable 19x19 server. > > Please consider increasing the time a program stays on the list until it > ages off. I guess you drop programs from the ratings page after some time > that depends on the number of games they have played. Since 19x19 games > take 4 times longs, it seems you should allow four times as much time to age > off the list, for the same number of games. I like seeing the top program's > results a little longer. > > It would be nice if a program can get into position more quickly. Since the > games take longer, it can take several days to climb up from the initial > 1200 to 2000, especially if there is an early loos. Does it make sense to > set the initial k value a little higher, or to set the initial rating to > 1500 instead of 1200? > > -David > > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
