I wasn’t comparing handicap game results to even game results - wasn’t saying one doesn’t work and the other does. When you can give someone 3 stones one week and take 3 stones from the same person next week, that should cause some damage to the integrity of the results of the handicap games, regardless of the results of even games, which makes me question how OGS approximates 50% winrate for strong/weak sides in handi games with such a deficit in place.