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Old 11-06-2006, 04:45 PM
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Default Re: How many games for a reliable ROI?

Sorry to revive a dead thread but this is the sort of question which gets asked a lot, I wanted to produce the table below but only just got around to it.




The confidence level is determined by two things only: your win % and the number of SnGs played. Of the two the latter - number played - makes by far the biggest difference (as you can see).

How to interpret the table? Well lets say you've played 250 HU SnGs at a given level and you've won 55% of them. Looking up the above table you should see this gives you the value 6.2%, this means that you can be 95% sure that your true win rate is in the range 55% +/- 6.2% (i.e. 48.8 to 61.2%). If you are playing with a 50+2.5 type structure, as stars has, you are trying to gain confidence that you are winning more than 52.5% (the break even point); this range dips below 52.5%, so you can't be sure you're a winning player.

Hope that makes it clear.

Cheers,
RH
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