Ratings floor and ceiling, does it help accuracy ?

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irrawang
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Ratings floor and ceiling, does it help accuracy ?

Post by irrawang » Mon Mar 30, 2015 12:18 am

Seems a lot of players are bouncing off the floor of 2100 and a few bounce off the ceiling of 3000. Surely this distorts those ratings close to these limits, or does it make the system more accurate?

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Re: Ratings floor and ceiling, does it help accuracy ?

Post by gmiller » Mon Mar 30, 2015 6:17 pm

Without an upper limit, people were creating a bunch of users and playing against themselves to get ridiculous ratings like 99999999999999999999. Putting the limit in just means I don't have to police it. The lower floors are to guard against legitimate players who inadvertently time out on a lot of games due to some unforeseen circumstance.
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