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Philip Thomas v Roger Booker (Tue 17 Jul 2018)

Match won by Philip Thomas. Result: 9-2,9-5,9-7.

Starting level for Philip Thomas: 1,648, level confidence: 78%. Set manually.
Starting level for Roger Booker: 947, level confidence: 61%.
Philip Thomas to win as he is currently playing 74% better than Roger Booker.

Philip Thomas 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 41% (english scoring).
These are weighted and combined to calculate that Philip Thomas played 46% better than Roger Booker in this match.

In this case, Philip Thomas played at level 1,444 and remained within his allowed range so his level will not be adjusted. On the assumption that Philip Thomas would normally have been playing at level 1,512 (based on typical behaviour), Roger Booker played better than expected and therefore gains a pre-damping level increase of 4.7%.

Allowing for the difference in level between the players, the adjustments have been reduced to 0% and 3.6% respectively.

Factoring in the relative levels of confidence which allows players with low confidence in their levels to change more quickly, the adjustment for Philip Thomas changes to 0% and Roger Booker changes to +3.6%.

After applying standard match damping, the adjustment for Philip Thomas becomes 0% and for Roger Booker becomes +3.3%.

Apply match/event weighting of 65% for 'Oxfordshire Mens Summer League 2018' so the adjustment for Philip Thomas is 0% and for Roger Booker is +2.1%.

Increase level confidence due to one more match played. Philip Thomas: 88%, Roger Booker: 78%. Reduce level confidence based on how unexpected the result is. Philip Thomas: 81%, Roger Booker: 72%.

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 Philip Thomas: 1,646, level confidence: 81%.
Final level for Roger Booker: 966, level confidence: 72%.