Topic on User talk:Wesalius

Did you make any progress in fetching the elo ratings for the time before 2001 from the websites benoni or olimpbase?

Nope. The same "on hold state" as with the federation countries applies to this as well.

I may be mistaken, but from what I remember when I briefly checked the files from those sites, they were not produced as "elo ratings of players per month". If the data structure is different to fide files which I work with now, then it will be a possible problem, because the script I use now is written for "elo ratings of players per month" files.

Maybe you could contact people behind benoni and olimpbase if they could produce their output data in "FIDE" formatting, so it could be easily uploaded to wd using the script without major changes...

I sent a message to benoni. I doubt that the guy behind olimpbase will have time for this, he is always very busy (he is mayor of a town), so I did not ask him yet.

Benoni has answered. He told me that extracting the ratings from the old FIDE lists is quite problematic and cumbersome because the FIDE ID was not constant in these times, transcriptions from non-latin-letters may slightly change over time and players (especially women) may have changed their family name. So he does not have a complete dataset of all the ratings and he can not provide us the data as "elo ratings per players per month". He offered to help us, but at the moment he does not know how he can help us.

If there are such inconsistencies in the datases, they might not ne suitable for bot ať all...

Thank you for asking anyway.