Reliability of "Aggression Factors"

[pal=m]

Based on experience, how many hands / showdowns are required on a player for their flop / turn / river aggression factors to be reliable.

Thanks in advance.

[jtr]

A lot. I wouldn't take them super-seriously before 100, 200, and 400 hands respectively.

[pal=m]

Only (1) reply? My feeling is that the answer is a straight-forward math / statistics calc. But I was curious if anyone had more practical experience. I'm guessing at least (75-100) showdowns are required for the late-street stats? Am I far off here?

Where are the most-experienced of PT users hiding?

Thanks,
pal

[flair1239]

I think almost all of the Post-flop stats takes quite a while to converge.

If you tinker with your database and even isolate it to people that you have 150+ hands on and sort it by W$SD%, you will see that these numbers run extremely high for long periods of time for some people.

I think that the aggression factors converge quicker, but do to the complicated nature of post-flop play, I think they are easily skewed over a moderate amount of hands.

This is why it is still important to take manual notes. However that said, in the absence of other information, I still feel that these stats can assist you in decision making even over a small sample, as long as you are aware of the potential pitfalls (ie some information is better than no information.)