Rating Floor
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antoniomendonca
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Rating Floor
Please, what does Rating Floor at Rating History means ?
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antoniomendonca
- Posts: 19
- Joined: Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:35 pm
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slowblunder
- Posts: 77
- Joined: Thu Aug 04, 2005 4:23 pm
Hello all,
I am new to net-chess (< two weeks) and wondered about "rating floor" as well. My first assumption now is confirmed but there are some questions still open:
1) Why do some players have "rating floors" and others don´t? Is the number of completed games a trigger for it?
2) Most "rating floors" are multiples of 100 (like 1400 or 1600), others are odd (like 1483). Who sets them or are they computed on a regular base? What are the rules?
3) Do the "rating floors" ever change? User´s demand, admin´s will, regular update?
4) I think I understood the effect (you can´t drop below that number with your rating), but what is the "nutricious value" for that? A player with 1600 (because of that) now plays like 1300, but all opponents´ wins reflect a 1600-player. So they get more rating points than deserved which leads to a rating-inflation over-all in the long run. As far as I understand ELO-rating it is important that the system keeps stable.
I am sure these questions have been written, discussed and answered before. But unfortunately I couldn´t find anything about that in the FAQs as well as in prior threads. You don´t need to answer in detail, I would appreciate a short hint to the correct place.
Thank you very much
(and don´t ever make an "easy" correspondence move while chatting on phone - this is the first painful, but valuable lesson I learnt here!)
I am new to net-chess (< two weeks) and wondered about "rating floor" as well. My first assumption now is confirmed but there are some questions still open:
1) Why do some players have "rating floors" and others don´t? Is the number of completed games a trigger for it?
2) Most "rating floors" are multiples of 100 (like 1400 or 1600), others are odd (like 1483). Who sets them or are they computed on a regular base? What are the rules?
3) Do the "rating floors" ever change? User´s demand, admin´s will, regular update?
4) I think I understood the effect (you can´t drop below that number with your rating), but what is the "nutricious value" for that? A player with 1600 (because of that) now plays like 1300, but all opponents´ wins reflect a 1600-player. So they get more rating points than deserved which leads to a rating-inflation over-all in the long run. As far as I understand ELO-rating it is important that the system keeps stable.
I am sure these questions have been written, discussed and answered before. But unfortunately I couldn´t find anything about that in the FAQs as well as in prior threads. You don´t need to answer in detail, I would appreciate a short hint to the correct place.
Thank you very much
(and don´t ever make an "easy" correspondence move while chatting on phone - this is the first painful, but valuable lesson I learnt here!)
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nicoleskywalker
- Posts: 9
- Joined: Mon May 23, 2005 3:22 pm
To get a rating floor you have to have played 20 games. Some people dont have a rating floor cause they have played less than 20 games. Your rating floor is 200 points bellow your actually rating at the 100. Youyr rating floor can only change when you gain 100 points or get to the next 100 and it will go up 100 rating points.
You don't have to have one.
You can ask Greg to remove your rating floor.