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My ranking changed, too. Strange.
LightningStorm_07 wrote:
Yesterday I was ranked about 19,600 in rapid with a percentile of 99.9%. Today I am ranked 14,200 in rapid with a percentile of 99.6%. What happened? (No rating changes.)
Chess.com is dying I think 
Jan 31, 2024
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#4
I think this means that a lot of higher and weaker (mostly weaker players) disappeared. I thought chess was really growing because I had a 502 sever overload error a few days ago. Also, the molbile app can be super slow (especially around analysis), so I thought this meant there was an influx of members.
Jan 31, 2024
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#5
Hmm 🤔 interesting
yesterday my percentile is 86.5%, but I just checked my rapid percentile dropped to 79.5%
( also no rating changes )
Jan 31, 2024
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#6
I guess that probably chess.com deleted lots of no longer active accounts created in 2009 or 2008,
Monday, with a rapid rating of 602 I was in the 48th percentile, ranked 13,288,130. Today, after winning a game my rating is 611, I'm in the 38th percentile, ranked 2,726,132. That's not possible. 9 rating points can't move me up 10 million places.
Jan 31, 2024
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#9
Yes, why are we moving up so much? Are higher rated players quitting too?
Jan 31, 2024
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#11
If (as mentioned above) chess.com removed inactive (predominant lower rated) accounts not only does that account for the information given above. The the information you have now is more accurate given the ACTIVE players in the various pool. Leaving an account that played 3 games 10y ago and quit in the calculation is not representative of the current pool.
Jan 31, 2024
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#12
I thought the leaderboard only displayed account with at least 10 rapid games in the past 90 days.
Has anyone seen an explanation from Chess.com about the changes to the rankings & percentiles? It's not the end of the world but it would be nice to know how to make sense of the numbers.
Feb 3, 2024
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#14
LightningStorm_07 wrote:
Yesterday I was ranked about 19,600 in rapid with a percentile of 99.9%. Today I am ranked 14,200 in rapid with a percentile of 99.6%. What happened? (No rating changes.)
I believe they implemented a system where inactive players are excluded from the percentile calculation. This means that the percentile reflects only the activity of players currently active on chess.com. I could be wrong though this is just what I have heard.
Feb 5, 2024
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#16
My rapid rating is 700ish but ranking has gone from ~9M to ~2.5M. Has chess.com cleared off non playing accounts?
Q1960 wrote:
My rapid rating is 700ish but ranking has gone from ~9M to ~2.5M. Has chess.com cleared off non playing accounts?
The more I think about it, the less I understand. For example, the leaderboard today shows that the top 500,000 rapid players have ratings over 1300. But the distribution graph has nearly 1,500,000 players rated over 1300. The leaderboard also says that there are 68 million rapid players, but the distribution graph adds up to approximately half that many. Also, both of those numbers (the total number of players & the total of all the distribution graph data points) has gone up slightly since the end of December. If Chess.com has dropped inactive accounts, neither of those numbers show it.
Feb 7, 2024
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#18
Nothing happened for me, but I've heard a lot of people are having the same trouble.
Mar 31, 2024
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#19
I have noticed a drop as well
I reached my peak of 2101 on Nov 8 2023 and was ranked 6668th in the world. Today, March 30 2024, roughly 6 months later, with a rating of 2073, I am ranked 12361…
Either the website gave high (inactive) ranking players a place in the percentile or Rapid is gaining a lot of popularity lately 🤔
Yesterday I was ranked about 19,600 in rapid with a percentile of 99.9%. Today I am ranked 14,200 in rapid with a percentile of 99.6%. What happened? (No rating changes.)