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Arturo Salazar v Abdulla Al-Tamimi (Thu 26 Sep 2019)

Match won by Arturo Salazar. Result: 6-11,11-3,11-7.

Starting level for Arturo Salazar: 35,148, level confidence: 49%.
Starting level for Abdulla Al-Tamimi: 30,885, level confidence: 83%. Set manually.
Arturo Salazar to win as he is currently playing 14% better than Abdulla Al-Tamimi.

Arturo Salazar won 67% of the games and 57% of the points.
This games result would be expected if he was better by around 20%.
This points result would be expected if he was better by around 33% (PAR scoring).
These are weighted and combined to calculate that Arturo Salazar played 27% better than Abdulla Al-Tamimi in this match.

Assuming that any level changes are shared between both players, for this result it looks like Arturo Salazar actually played at a level of 37,081 and Abdulla Al-Tamimi at a level of 29,275. Without any damping, both players would need to be adjusted by 5.5% to match this result.
As this is a best of 3 match rather than best of 5, these adjustments have been reduced to 3.8% and 3.8% respectively.

Factoring in the relative levels of confidence which allows players with low confidence in their levels to change more quickly, the adjustment for Arturo Salazar changes to +3.8% and Abdulla Al-Tamimi changes to -2.2%.

After applying standard match damping, the adjustment for Arturo Salazar becomes +1.3% and for Abdulla Al-Tamimi becomes -0.9%.

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

Increase level confidence due to one more match played. Arturo Salazar: 70%, Abdulla Al-Tamimi: 91%. Reduce level confidence based on how unexpected the result is. Arturo Salazar: 66%, Abdulla Al-Tamimi: 86%.

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 Arturo Salazar: 35,555, level confidence: 66%.
Final level for Abdulla Al-Tamimi: 30,719, level confidence: 86%.