Happened to me and I rarely play standard, still looking for a reason why.
Sudden Big Rating Changes
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RonaldJosephCote wrote:
Hello all! The standard rating pool has been deflated at the high-end scale for quite some time on Chess.com now (FMs were only 1600-1800 in rating, and the highest possible was around 2100), these rating changes were an attempt to remedy that and get the rating pool back to a more reasonable scale.
Unfortunately there's been a bug where a few players are losing points, if this has happened please either send me a message or send it in to support (https://support.chess.com/customer/portal/emails/new) and your rating will be set to what it would have been after our ratings boost.
Thanks for your understanding and apologies for the confusion.
My standard rose 200 points and I was so trilled! But does the rating change actually improve the accuracy of the players strenth?
OK, so the standard ratings may have been deflated, but my standard rating just jumped about 400 points. There is *no way* that I am a 2300 rated standard player! I suspect this will be ironed out as I donate the points back to others, but still totally bizarre.
I'ts because of something known as "rating deviation", or RD. Every player has an RD. The RD indicates how often and how recently you've been playing games. If you haven't played in a long time, your RD goes up, while if you are fairly active, your RD stays low. If you have a higher RD, your rating changes more, but your opponent's rating changes less, because your rating is less accurate. There are some articles explaining the Glicko and Elo systems on Chess.com that you can find.
Hey everyone,
If you are someone who just randomly discovered that your standard rating just shot up or down by 100-500, you are NOT alone. If you are sure that you know why chess.com decided to just randomly do something like this, please reply with an answer so then the players who had this experience will have an idea of why they just got a random gift. Why do you think that chess.com decided to do this?