Chess Changes???

Hi,is the average opponent stat working correctly since being re-installed ?

regards.

yep it works good for me

Might just as well remove "average opponent" since it no longer displays the correct average. Mine were short of 2100 (if I remember correctly) after more than 400 games. Now it's sub 1900 - mainly because I have been participating in tournaments where there are quite a few low rated players. Doesn't feel right in a historical setting tho. I have a friend who had like 1700 average opponent, and now he has sky rocketed up to almost 2200 because he suddenly found himself playing in tournaments where his opponents were much higher rated, and his old AO had been deleted.

On the contrary, the change was needed. In my personal case, for instance, I almost-always play players rated above myself. For about 2 years on this site, I was rated ~1400, and had a Avg Opp of ~1550. Then in a short span of a few months, I shot up to ~1600. It seems silly that I should spend the next two years with an Avg Opp rating below my current rating, since I rarely play down.

@SensFan33

Silly? At least it would represent your true AO, and not your inflated/deflated AO - which would be the point behind this feature, and not just a capped, last few months-AO.

I very rarely play down myself, except when I join tournaments, and never know what ratings I'm going to meet - but still I find myself with an amputated AO. I don't see any point posting it in the stats menu since it's not historically and statistically accurate, which would be the whole point with statistics?

Except AO should be used as a rating relative to your own; in fact, that's the only use it has. So if I'm 1600 and have an AO of 1550, then it gives the impression that I often play players lower rated than myself, which would be very incorrect. By using the 'last 90 days' option, it gives a more realistic result of if someone tends to play up or down more often than most.

No, this is where your other stats comes to the rescue. Games won/lost/drawn would fill in the gaps in the AO history. When I look at my stats now, nothing makes sense anymore. I have a low AO and quite a high percentage of wins

With my new all time low AO (1891) these numbers tells my opponents that in order to have such a low AO and such a high percentage of wins, I must be overrated - which from a competetive point of view might not be such a bad thing.

You're right; win/loss record gives an indication. But that still doesn't mean that an AO that spans 3 years or more of history means anything whatsoever.

So afterall this time the av opp rating has been tinkered with again,from all time to last 90 days,what use is that as a guide ??

@bayview

None. It's just a number which makes no sense anymore.

No. The number that doesn't make any sense was the all-time AO. AO only has any value as it relates to the player's rating, so an all-time AO would only have value if it was also accompanied by an all-time rating.

You are wrong, but I will let it be up to yourself to figure it out.

If I say "I'm gifted because the average age of my classmates is almost 18!!!", then I would assume that your first instinct would be that I have told you nothing of relevance if you don't know my age.

Try again.