SmyslovFan wrote:
Scott, there's one player who was 19xx and is now +2300. The players I've seen who lost a bunch of rating points were inactive in standard chess.
I haven't played live chess for years and gained 150 pts.
huge rating jump
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Oct 21, 2014
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#44
Hello all! The standard rating pool has been deflated at the high-end scale for quite some time on Chess.com now (FMs were only 1600-1800 in rating, and the highest possible was around 2100), these rating changes were an attempt to remedy that and get the rating pool back to a more reasonable scale.
Unfortunately there's been a bug where a few players are losing points, if this has happened please either send me a message or send it in to support (https://support.chess.com/customer/portal/emails/new) and your rating will be set to what it would have been after our ratings boost.
Thanks for your understanding and apologies for the confusion.
@monitor:
Couldn't it have been done in a more intelligent way?
Raising different ratings different amounts of points above a arbitrary threshold just means that they get less accurate in comparison to each other and you have players hundreds of points apart when their strength is almost identical.
Should raise the ratings by a percentage of themselves so the jump isn't so steep or inaccurate.
Ah, I see, I just posted on this topic myself.....
SmyslovFan wrote:
Scott, we were both wrong.
Except me.
So I'm considered "on the high end of the scale"?
Scottrf wrote:
SmyslovFan wrote:
Scott, we were both wrong.
Except me.
Ha! Very funny. Not to mention, true.
@monitor:
And what's up with sending the news to the DHLC while the rest of us are are floundering around in the forums trying to figure out what's going on? Any chance the rest of us might have access to the announcement?
Oct 21, 2014
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#54
Information at http://www.chess.com/livechess/players?type=Standard seems inconsistent. At least the numbers from the table don't match the diagram.
So will we be paired up against players of a similar strength? I'm another of those who's shot up 150 points. Played against someone who had a rating of 1350 very much like my new rating and it seemed fairly even (even if i did blunder in the end game)
Really confused as to why this has happened..
Oct 21, 2014
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#56
Ignoring the bug in which a few players lost points (which we plan to have resolved soon) all players have increased in rating, it shouldn't matter that some players are slightly unevenly matched because once everybody plays each other they will regain the rating that they deserve, except it will be +150-300 higher than before.
Sred that diagram doesn't update immediately, it's not meant for recording such rapid heavy changes, but it will update soon.
I just got a message from Eternal Patzer saying my rating went up. I won't open it.
Oct 21, 2014
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#59
bigpoison wrote:
Scottrf wrote:
SmyslovFan wrote:
Scott, we were both wrong.
Except me.
Ha! Very funny. Not to mention, true.
Scottrf wrote,
Nothing to do with RD, people under 1,600 jumped 150, people over 1,600 fell 200.
monitor wrote:
Ignoring the bug in which a few players lost points (which we plan to have resolved soon) all players have increased in rating, it shouldn't matter that some players are slightly unevenly matched because once everybody plays each other they will regain the rating that they deserve, except it will be +150-300 higher than before.
Sred that diagram doesn't update immediately, it's not meant for recording such rapid heavy changes, but it will update soon.
Seems kinda' pointless and arbitrary. Why not raise 'em all 1000 points so we can really feel good about our ratings?!
Yeah, 150 points, like everyone, it seems.