I would say purely for academic purposes just out of curiosity to find out how low it's possible for a rating to go on chess.com, once it gets low then it's basically a throw away it would be unfair to take other players rating points in such a situation as you will be getting a lot of points from them and your playing strength is not actually reflected in your rating.
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Aug 8, 2018
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Luke00001 wrote:
I would say purely for academic purposes just out of curiosity to find out how low it's possible for a rating to go on chess.com, once it gets low then it's basically a throw away it would be unfair to take other players rating points in such a situation as you will be getting a lot of points from them and your playing strength is not actually reflected in your rating.
I think it general it is pretty symmetrical. Remember he deliberately lost rating points to 157 players in the process of getting his rating down. Forgetting about Tau factor in Glicko and the relative adjustments because of other's Glickos I think you pretty much would just be gaining rating you gave away. Obviously you are causing slight random distortion as the same people don't lose and gain rating but not much per person and not in the aggregate.
Aug 8, 2018
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Luke00001 wrote:
I would say purely for academic purposes just out of curiosity to find out how low it's possible for a rating to go on chess.com, once it gets low then it's basically a throw away it would be unfair to take other players rating points in such a situation as you will be getting a lot of points from them and your playing strength is not actually reflected in your rating.
Yeah I guess,otherwise I don't see any purpose in doing that but I'm sure some wouldn't mind sandbagging,even though like you said there is little to gain from it,it happens all the time in Street Fighter though xD
My question is why would anyone want a rating so low,perhaps sandbagging purposes?