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Avatar of Happy2learn2day

I think there should be a new filter for live 1 min. games.  You should be able to select the rank a player has achieved.  For instance if you have a player who has been 2200 in quick and is now 1350, we should be able to filter that person out as they are just trying to mess with people

Avatar of waffllemaster

A better way is to have rating floor.  Say after 50 games at a certain level you can never fall 400 or 500 points below that rating.

Avatar of Sred

Rating floors work, but also make the rating system less accurate.  I think that sandbagging isn't a real issue on chess.com since you can't win money in tournaments.

Avatar of TheGreatOogieBoogie

I think a floor is good (except for those of us with provisional ratings) because if someone is clearly capable of defeating a 2000 or obtaining an 1800 rating then something is amiss if they're in a 1400 tournament. 

Avatar of Sred
ScorpionPackAttack wrote:

I think a floor is good (except for those of us with provisional ratings) because if someone is clearly capable of defeating a 2000 or obtaining an 1800 rating then something is amiss if they're in a 1400 tournament. 

I think that rarely happens because of sandbagging, but very often because they join the tounament with a provisional rating. Without money to earn there is just no incentive for sandbagging.

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