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Greg Lobban v Christopher Gordon (Wed 11 Sep 2019)

Match won by Greg Lobban. Result: 11-2,11-8,12-10.

Starting level for Greg Lobban: 39,010, level confidence: 70%. Set manually.
Starting level for Christopher Gordon: 23,134, level confidence: 39%.
Greg Lobban to win as he is currently playing 69% better than Christopher Gordon.

Greg Lobban won all of the games and 63% 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 70% (PAR scoring).
These are weighted and combined to calculate that Greg Lobban played 70% better than Christopher Gordon in this match.

Assuming that any level changes are shared between both players, for this result it looks like Greg Lobban actually played at a level of 39,169 and Christopher Gordon at a level of 23,040. Without any damping, both players would need to be adjusted by 0.4% to match this result.

Allowing for the difference in level between the players, the adjustments have been reduced to 0.3% and 0.3% respectively.

Factoring in the relative levels of confidence which allows players with low confidence in their levels to change more quickly, the adjustment for Greg Lobban changes to 0% and Christopher Gordon changes to -0.3%.

After applying standard match damping, the adjustment for Greg Lobban becomes +0.1% and for Christopher Gordon becomes 0%.

Apply match/event weighting of 100% for 'PSA HKFC International' so the adjustment is unchanged.

Increase level confidence due to one more match played. Greg Lobban: 84%, Christopher Gordon: 62%. Reduce level confidence based on how unexpected the result is. Greg Lobban: 84%, Christopher Gordon: 62%.

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 Greg Lobban: 38,967, level confidence: 84%.
Final level for Christopher Gordon: 23,109, level confidence: 62%.