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Error rates

From:   Gregg Cattanach
Address:   gcattanach@prodigy.net
Date:   8 October 2000
Subject:   Re: Explanation of Snowie Error Rates:
Forum:   rec.games.backgammon
Google:   8rr0dg$7qim$1@newssvr05-en0.news.prodigy.com

> 1. When snowie says i had a combined checker and cube error of 7.5, what
>    does that actually mean?  I lost .75 of a point due to my
>    incompetance? or .75 of a match?  or something else?
> 2. Snowie will analyze my matches and say something like... "4 cube
>    errors including 1 blunder"... but then when i "explore" my matches,
>    I might find 3 cube decisions highlighted as "blunders"  how can this
>    be?

There are two error rates quoted at the end of each Snowie HTML output
match.

The first is the EMG (Equivalent Money Game) figure.  This figure does NOT
take into effect the match equity lost by your errors, but treats each game
separately as if it were a money game.  The figure is in 'millipoints per
move'.  So in a match with exactly 100 moves (both players), if you gave up
.075 in equity on one move only, you would have an error rate of 0.75
(which would be EXTREMELY good.).  If you gave up a total of .750 equity
over all your errors then you'd get an EMG error rate of 7.5.

The second is the MWC (Match Winning Chances) error rate, which is a
percentage.  If the total amount of match equity you gave up over all your
errors was 20%, then this number is 20.00.

The first number is good to look at how you played in all games equally
(you don't want to make errors at any match score).  The second shows you
the cost in the match of your errors, based on which games and the level of
the cube where you made your errors.

This is also well explained in the Snowie Help text.

Hope that helps :)
--
Gregg Cattanach
Zox at GamesGrid, Zone
http://gateway.to/backgammon
 
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