Resolved: Unfair points drop

My last bullet game saw my rating drop 24 points. I've played a thousand games. First time that's happened. The player I was playing was rated about 150 points below me so I think a -12 is what should have happened. I don't understand it and I don't know how to fix it. Was there a system issue and can it be fixed?

saahilkapoor,

A couple points: a) the Glicko rating system is more complicated than the ELO/FIDE rating system, using frequency of play of both players as a significant part of the algorithm for ratings adjustments, and b) from a cursory look at your games archive, that last Bullet game was the first rated Bullet game you have played in a while - thus (considering a) above), the adjustment to your rating for that loss to a lower-rated player will have been larger than usual.

Without a great deal more data than either of us can get our hands on, I think that pretty much explains what you saw. I don't believe there is any system issue or anything to "fix."

Well, I figured it was something of that sort. But I did play a rated game before and the +4 rating there was expected. But ah well, failed to think that it would take into acount time spent away even after you've played tons of games. Thanks for the response though. I think that settles it.