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Why do you wait to level 6 blinds for your ratings.
I choose to start with Level 6 because the earlier rounds are both less important and increase dispropirtionally to the later rounds. Looking at the 2016 1k event the blinds more than sextuple from Level 1 (25/50) to Level 5 (50/150/300). After that, the change in blinds/antes flattens out and changes less drastically from level to level.
dimeat put it well with:
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Patient factor formula is not really a good way to determine how good a structure is since it just calculates how long until you would blind out. You should care how good the structure is when you get deep which is fine and is the same as 2015
I agree and think S-Points takes both those ideas into consideration. It essentially divides relative value of chips you get to the rate of increase in the antes/blinds at the later levels.
Comparing the WSOP 1K from 2015 (Event 30) to 2016 (Event 17) using S-Points verifies S-Points is a good metric for overall structure comparisons. Here's what I have for those tournaments:
Year, Level6, Level10, Level14, Level18, 100%Minutes, S-Points
2015, 700, 2200, 6000, 12500, 780, 98
2016, 1100, 2500, 7600, 14000, 720, 101
You get more relative chips in the 2015 structure (780 minutes to 720 minutes), but that is neutralized by the blinds increasing slower in the 2016 structure. In 2015 the blinds more than doubled from Level 14 to Level 18, while in 2016 its about 1.8.