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  • 23 months ago · Quote · #1

    srn347

    Ok, so according to my page I'm in the top 68.4th percentile (this may be subject to change), yet I have more losses then wins. This means that over half the people on chess.com have more losses than wins, so WHERE are all the wins going?!

  • 23 months ago · Quote · #2

    ivandh

    I think the percentile is based on your rating, not your win-loss record.

  • 23 months ago · Quote · #3

    aquiredtaste

    ivandh is correct.

  • 23 months ago · Quote · #4

    srn347

    Oh...still, if I have more losses than wins how is my rating higher than the top 50%?

  • 23 months ago · Quote · #5

    eddiewsox

    Someone could have way more wins than you but only plays very low rated opponents, you could haave more losses than wins but are playing a lot of higher rated opponents.

  • 23 months ago · Quote · #6

    srn347

    Ah, that makes sense. Which is rather unfortunate, why must all great paradoxes be solved? (lolz)

  • 23 months ago · Quote · #7

    Atyn

    srn347 wrote:

    Oh...still, if I have more losses than wins how is my rating higher than the top 50%?


    If you won yur first game, your rating probably goes up 200pts. Then, if you win another game, your rating goes up 150pts. Then, if you lose 5 games, you will lose 350pts.  This is because, the more games you play, the less pts you go up and down.

  • 23 months ago · Quote · #8

    srn347

    Sounds about right, as variance continues to decrease the variance OF variance also decreases.


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