Obviously not all the Ragozin players saw my post (and others may have simply chosen not to reply) so it would be ridiculous to draw any firm conclusions, but it is at least interesting that a number of TG players (including some who have not posted this time) have made their own figures, but no Ragozin players have come forward to say they have (the only one I can think of off the top of my head who might have is Jim Dennis, but obviously I don't know all their players). A lot of the issues in figure making become a lot easier to grasp when you actually are working with the data than they are in the abstract, and it is unlikely that anyone who has spent any serious time grappling with variants would accept the assumptions and broad averages that Ragozin uses-- that is, if they knew how the sausage was made.



TGJB