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Mohamed Elshorbagy v Karim Abdel Gawad (Sat 25 May 2019)

Match won by Mohamed Elshorbagy. Result: 11-9,11-3,11-9.

Starting level for Mohamed Elshorbagy: 66,107, level confidence: 71%. Set manually.
Starting level for Karim Abdel Gawad: 60,198, level confidence: 92%. Set manually.
Mohamed Elshorbagy to win as he is currently playing 10% better than Karim Abdel Gawad.

Mohamed Elshorbagy won all of the games and 61% 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 57% (PAR scoring).
These are weighted and combined to calculate that Mohamed Elshorbagy played 56% better than Karim Abdel Gawad in this match.

Assuming that any level changes are shared between both players, for this result it looks like Mohamed Elshorbagy actually played at a level of 78,901 and Karim Abdel Gawad at a level of 50,437. Without any damping, both players would need to be adjusted by 19% to match this result.


Factoring in the relative levels of confidence which allows players with low confidence in their levels to change more quickly, the adjustment for Mohamed Elshorbagy changes to +18% and Karim Abdel Gawad changes to -14%.

After applying standard match damping, the adjustment for Mohamed Elshorbagy becomes +3.6% and for Karim Abdel Gawad becomes -2.9%.

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

Increase level confidence due to one more match played. Mohamed Elshorbagy: 84%, Karim Abdel Gawad: 96%. Reduce level confidence based on how unexpected the result is. Mohamed Elshorbagy: 70%, Karim Abdel Gawad: 80%.

A final adjustment of +0.2% 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 Mohamed Elshorbagy: 68,196, level confidence: 70%.
Final level for Karim Abdel Gawad: 59,045, level confidence: 80%.