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Joel Makin v Tom Richards (Sun 11 Aug 2019)

Match won by Joel Makin. Result: 11-6,11-3,11-8.

Starting level for Joel Makin: 57,530, level confidence: 82%. Set manually.
Starting level for Tom Richards: 40,063, level confidence: 71%. Set manually.
Joel Makin to win as he is currently playing 44% better than Tom Richards.

Joel Makin won all of the games and 66% of the points.
This games result would be expected if he was better by around 55% or more.
This points result would be expected if he was better by around 94% (PAR scoring).
These are weighted and combined to calculate that Joel Makin played 94% better than Tom Richards in this match.

Assuming that any level changes are shared between both players, for this result it looks like Joel Makin actually played at a level of 66,888 and Tom Richards at a level of 34,458. Without any damping, both players would need to be adjusted by 16% to match this result.

Allowing for the difference in level between the players, the adjustments have been reduced to 13% and 13% respectively.

Factoring in the relative levels of confidence which allows players with low confidence in their levels to change more quickly, the adjustment for Joel Makin changes to +12% and Tom Richards changes to -13%.

After applying standard match damping, the adjustment for Joel Makin becomes +2.6% and for Tom Richards becomes -3%.

Apply match/event weighting of 100% for 'Kent Thanet Open 2019' so the adjustment is unchanged.

Increase level confidence due to one more match played. Joel Makin: 90%, Tom Richards: 84%. Reduce level confidence based on how unexpected the result is. Joel Makin: 78%, Tom Richards: 73%.

A final adjustment of +0.1% has been made to both players as part of the automatic calibration that is performed after each match. All players in this pool will have been adjusted equally in order to remain equivalent to other player pools.

Final level for Joel Makin: 58,684, level confidence: 78%.
Final level for Tom Richards: 39,156, level confidence: 73%.