Cruiseylee78 wrote:
Rating floors are great. If you are a senior the rating floor comes down in time and you are at your level in no time.
This is not true in the US .
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Reb wrote:
Cruiseylee78 wrote:
Rating floors are great. If you are a senior the rating floor comes down in time and you are at your level in no time.
This is not true in the US .
I'll have to look for the referrences but I believe there are a couple of mechanisms to decrease a rating floor. I think one is by request, along with appropriate proof of lower strength in past events, and the other is poor scoring in match play.
Though, that may or may not be true from someone that gets the Original Life Master title.
If a 1300 player wins, let us say, the US open, then is that 1300 player sandbagging?
What if a 1300 player wins the US open in the open section????????
EDIT: LOOOL, I just reread your reply to the poster about him saying "1300 players..." and didn't realize until now that that was my post about 2 months ago...
What I'm trying to say is that the 1300 player plays like a 2200+ player, but because, let us say, the 1300 player hasn't played in tournaments for 5 or 6 years, and that's why his rating never increased....So wouldn't this also be unfair to everyone but the 1300 player, because the other players will underestimate the 1300 player
Hahahaha
US swiss system tournaments encourage sandbagging and mediocrity due to the prize/class structures . I don't like rating " floors " as they are unfair to senior players .