Players rating fluctuate from the time they join a tournament, and the time it actually starts.
Tournament Coding is flawed.
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Jan 30, 2018
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That can result, and is not a big deal. I am talking about discrepancies of 100+ rating points.
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Fraggenstein wrote:
That can result, and is not a big deal. I am talking about discrepancies of 100+ rating points.
Thats not that big of an increase.
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With your four months of experience on Chess.com, thank you for your opinion.
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Fraggenstein wrote:
With your four months of experience on Chess.com, thank you for your opinion.
Its actually over 8 years.
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Players ratings can vary widely when they are first playing based on the way ratings are calculated. They may start the site rated at 1200, even though they are an 1800 level player. It takes several games for us to determine an accurate rating for them. Because of this, players can join a tournament, and easily be rated 100 points higher than the limit by the time the tournament starts, and several hundred points higher by the time it ends.
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ignoble wrote:
Players ratings can vary widely when they are first playing based on the way ratings are calculated. They may start the site rated at 1200, even though they are an 1800 level player. It takes several games for us to determine an accurate rating for them. Because of this, players can join a tournament, and easily be rated 100 points higher than the limit by the time the tournament starts, and several hundred points higher by the time it ends.
How about transferring all those with a provisional rating to the open section by default?
Why post a comment and then mock someone that gives a pretty common sense reply, be it them having 4 months or 4 years on the site? Depending on how often a person plays and myself as an example, it’s fairly easy to fluctuate 100-300 rating points in just a matter of days. I’m not sure of your definition of “excellence” but competing to place in a tourney against people of your rating or lower isn’t where you’re going to find it.
That said, i think if they placed some type of set time probationary period for new players, in regards to joining tournaments and such, for a period that’s long enough to somewhat establish their rating, it would weed out a lot of the problems that are talked about. They could still join tournaments but with the others in the probationary group. It would help most with exposing people that sandbag/cheat and would hopefully deter or limit others from doing so.
Will it stop every person from breaking rules or using means to do so? No, but it wouldn’t hurt and once they’re probation period ends, throw them in with the masses so they too can experience taking a 15 perfect move loss from a <700 rated player just like the rest of everyone has.
That said, i think if they placed some type of set time probationary period for new players, in regards to joining tournaments and such, for a period that’s long enough to somewhat establish their rating, it would weed out a lot of the problems that are talked about. They could still join tournaments but with the others in the probationary group. It would help most with exposing people that sandbag/cheat and would hopefully deter or limit others from doing so.
Will it stop every person from breaking rules or using means to do so? No, but it wouldn’t hurt and once they’re probation period ends, throw them in with the masses so they too can experience taking a 15 perfect move loss from a <700 rated player just like the rest of everyone has.
Seems like a simple thing to only allow players to join a tournament if they have the appropriate rating.
Every tournament I'm in lately has a guy in the 1600-1700 range in the 1500 or less tournament. We're paying for excellence here, but you're not delivering it.