Fencer: I posted what I thought was a well considered contribution which may have been lost in this meaningless exchange. Should I post it again, or have you managed to locate it?

pgt: This one? Feature requests (pgt, 2007-03-09 05:40:39)

Fencer: That's it.

Fencer: I thought of a fairly fair play speed mesurment.


Speed=(Average Moves)/(Average Time Constraint)

This would thus result in a person that on average plays in half the time he is allowed to a score of 2. And a person that plays at the last moment gets a score of 1. Anyone with a score less then 1 takes advantage of weekends and or vacations to extend the fraime. This is several advantages over other methods.

1) If a player has 0 games there speed will stay the same.
2) A player that has 1000 games and a score of 2 can be expected to play every 3.5 days on a tournament with 7 day restraints and every 1 day on a 2 day game. So you can expect everyone in a tournament to play about the same speed.

mctrivia: I don't agree your second point. If I come to this site once a day, and play a move in all my games, then that will be rate of play, regardless of the time constraint of the games. I won't play faster in a tournament that has a 3 day move limit that I play in a tournament that has a 7 day move limit. I'd still be playing 1 move/game/day.

AbigailII: true .. i only would like to know how long i would have to wait in average before my opponent moves

(but .. please separate it per game type .. most of the times i make my moves in the following order : the ones for which i have less than 2 days remaining time, then all gammon types, then all other dice types, then all battleboat games, then all games which already have a lot of moves, then the rest by order of remaining time)