Results from my last 277 SnG's (Help?)

[Bozeman]

I'd rather not.

[Bluff1]

Hey booze how could I get those graphs like you got?

[Bozeman]

I always keep track of my exact finish place, since there might be some extra information in that. Being away from well stocked (in terms of mathematical analysis tools) computers, I used MicrosoftWorksSpreadsheet. It is not very good for the purpose, I needed to make a column for each finish place and use 1 for yes and 0 for no and then sum each column. And MWS is not very good at making graphs (even excel is better).

I am right in thinking that one has to put an image on the web (I use my ftp space) in order to link it into a 2+2 post?

Craig

[CrisBrown]

Hiya Craig,

Like Mark, I think you're probably beating yourself up too much here. Tournaments are about stronger players divvying the dead money of weaker players, and as you move up in the stakes, there's less dead money available to divvy.

Cris

[maplepig]

at this level, anything above 25% is very good, feel happy about your result here, play till you reach 1000 games, most likely your result will drop a little. I have played over 1000 of these, and I don't believe anyone can consistently get over 40% ROI.

[Nottom]

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I am very disappointed, because I have always at lower buyins had a smoothly decreasing function, but now I am getting less than 15% 1st's. The drop from 2nd to 1st sems to be statistically significant. I realize that a good player will usually reach headsup without a chip lead, but it seems that the level of shorthanded play at these is reasonably good: no one seems to make the horrendous mistake of folding too many hands, while many did at the $55 level.

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My thoughts on this are if you are routinely reaching the heads up stage of these SnGs with a slight chip disadvantage then your numbers seem about right. SInce the blinds will often be so big by the time you get heads up there is often little room to outplay your opponent even if you are the better player, so if hes not the type to fold too often(and you say they are less common at this level) then you would expect the chip leader to win more often than not.