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The result was not a list, but a A series of horizontal blocks, arranged from top to bottom. If two players are in the same tier, flip a coin. If they are in different tiers, start the better one without hesitation.

"I was tired of looking at massive, monolithic spreadsheets," Chen recalled in a rare 2018 interview. "Experts would give you a list of 200 players ranked 1 to 200. But the difference between player #12 and #13 is often statistically meaningless." boris chen

But the raw data was ugly. Chen, who moonlights as a design enthusiast (he has cited Piet Mondrian’s grid-based abstract art as an influence), decided to publish the results on a simple GitHub page. He used a clean, color-coded CSS grid. Red for Tier 1. Orange for Tier 2. Yellow for Tier 3. The result was not a list, but a

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