Originally posted by RookRAK
This calculation in no way represents the Average.
Given a large enough population, and reason to believe that the ratings are normally distributed, it might prove to be close to the mean.
Though, being that the median of active players is 1291, is VERY unlikely that the mean of all players could be substantially higher. Certainly not over 1400.
lets finish the statistics lesson. if you assume the sample to be normally distributed, then the sample size need not to be that large. isn't it n = 30.