I’d like to take into consideration which piece of information is the most meaningful/useful for players to help them choose, and how that can be conveyed most clearly.
I’d personally be most interested in how big a time window I’d need to reserve for myself to likely finish the game (not so much in the average/median game duration). The p90 total game duration may be a good indicator for that (also see Revisiting Automatch Time Settings: Data-Backed Proposal for New Automatch Settings on OGS - #216 by gennan).
With some rounding, for 19x19 p90 total game duration you’d get:
- blitz: up to ~15 minutes
- rapid: up to ~30 minutes
- full: up to ~50 minutes
For 9x9 p90 total game duration you’d get:
- blitz: up to ~5 minutes
- rapid: up to ~10 minutes
- full: up to ~15 minutes
So I think this is great:
…, except for clarity I’d add “up to” to those labels.
And perhaps the label of the correspondence option could also have a p90 total game duration indicator?
How about “odds balancing”, “odds adjustment” or “odds amendment”?
I like it!