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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?!
ivandh
I think the percentile is based on your rating, not your win-loss record.
aquiredtaste
ivandh is correct.
Oh...still, if I have more losses than wins how is my rating higher than the top 50%?
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.
Ah, that makes sense. Which is rather unfortunate, why must all great paradoxes be solved? (lolz)
Atyn
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.
Sounds about right, as variance continues to decrease the variance OF variance also decreases.
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