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Maybe you can explain to me how and why these probabilities should be applied to a system that is not an ELO system? LEt's skip the why for a second and focus on the how.

ERT, You made a very interesting claim that that Ma Long has a 15% chance of beating Dima based on the current rankings. How did you arrive at this result? Thanks.

That's probably where the estimate came from, and WTTC is the same audience for this, maybe smaller but not by much.

Happily looking forward to the Team World Cup, hope it is a great success!!

Go with faster rubbers on the wood blade. IF you have already do that, then just buy a faster wood blade. Carbon speed is not for everyone.

Over at mytt, people are pointing out that the ITTF system is not rating players or assigning them strength. In fact the old ranking system had a rating component and a bonus points component to get to its ranking. The new system is ranking tour performance. There is no rating component to...

Accurate at doing what? ELO systems are used in many countries, especiallyin chess where they were originally developed. Ratings Central had a more accurate ELO system than the current USATT system. But can you believe that for many reasons, Some political, but some also based in the fact that...

Try again - flawed by what measure? You have to decide what the criteria is for assessing the system before you call it flawed. Did Fan Zhendong have a better 2017 on the ITTF tour than Dima? Maybe yes. But maybe not. No one won more tournaments than Dima did last year. Is Fan Zhendong a...

Lots of players must have been happy with Timo Boll and Zhang Jike keeping high rankings through lengthy periods of inactivity. While they would do the best they could to play many events and come out with only a decent rating at best to show for it. That said, you cannot sell a tour if the...

NOTE: My goal is not to be an engineer (been there, done that). My goal is to help people improve their table tennis. Again, "aerodynamics" is a loaded term. That said, my main point is that *trying* to keep the blade angle steady when looping can mean a lot of things - the blade angle is...

You want to create yours? You could always use Ratings Central for the calculation and just store your match results.

I said a long time ago that anyone can maintain an ELO system on their home computer, and that the goal for ranking system should be to support the activities of the federation running it.

Here is a supposed example of what someone who is preaching keeping a stable angle would call a stable angle forehand topspin. Listen to the instructions provided and see if the angle is stable. What they really mean is do not d-ump or lift up the elbow habitually to a height higher than the...

Watch the pros loop, do you see them keep the blade angle steady for any incoming ball? They swing according to a rotational or helicopter principle. They hit the ball with a turning stroke. How does the blade angle stay constant with a turning stroke that salutes at the forehead etc. It...

What is a looping stroke that doesn't attempt to cover the ball? Can't make sense of your question. You can create the rotation with the body as well. This part of the reason why most high level table tennis players lean forward, it is people like me with bad knees who excessively rely on...

Good to see you posting here. Hope you stay regular.

It's about swing forward and making your contact come forward and over the ball. So you need to pull past the ball so to speak but not just stroke upwards behind it but forward and over it.

Beating kids is more about knowing what they don't train against and giving it to them. Of course, when they train against it you are toast. But I would say just learn to push heavy, consistently block them wide with transition from forehand to backhand and play with slow heavy topspin so they...

If it works or works, doesn't matter what it is called. Without video could be any combination of both but likely some spin avoidance.

I am a 2000 player and I play 2000 level opponents sometimes higher. Look at the number of times in my matches I hit a winner and the ball comes back (winner yeah right) and I am left out of position scrambling. So don't think it is all about age sometimes you just need to learn to play at...