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The Early-Late Ratio

by Douglas Zare
22 June 2002

Douglas Zare

In Snowie's theory panel, you can find a lot of information about match play according to Snowie's match equity table. One statistic for a match score and cube level is the early-late ratio. What is the early-late ratio, and how can you use it?

I haven't yet incorporated the early late ratio into my own play, partly because it was a mystery to me for a long time. I've asked Oasya, and only received a very limited response, that the early-late ratio was used to determine when to double in Snowie 2, but not directly by Snowie 3. You can also find some discussion on www.bkgm.com of the early-late ratio, but the table of values does not agree with Snowie's figures. The following is what I have worked out from some suggestions by Marc Ingenoso, and it seems to agree with Snowie's values

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Subject: Re: The Early-Late Ratio

From: zare

Date: 26 Sep 2003 14:28 EST

Oops, as the rest of the paragraph suggests, "taken" should be replaced by "passed" in the sentence, "That is, roughly 1/3 of initial money doubles should be taken, while 1/2 of the redoubles should be taken." It is more common for it to be right to pass a redouble.

Douglas Zare

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