Ratings
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How come a newbie to this game has a rating of 1440 when my rating is still only 1210 after several years and over 1000 games? How is the rating calculated??
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@funkeymonkey I think new players start on 1200 (Edit: could be 1500 actually) and their rating can swing wildly for the first few games before averaging out and acting normally. After that, ratings are pretty straightforward. You gain/lose points depending on how close your rating is to your opponent's rating. It seems to use a maximum scale of 22. Say two players with a 1210 rating play, the winner would gain 11pts and the loser would lose 11pts. If you'd beaten the 1440 person, you would have won more points and therefore taken them away from your opponent's rating. I know the website version tells you before playing what the rating changes will be.
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@funkeymonkey so... if you play a higher-rated player and win, your rating will increase noticeably. If you play a lower-rated player and lose, your rating will decrease noticeably. But if you beat the lower rated player or lose to the higher rated player, the change in your rating (and in theirs) is more negligible. If you care about these things, check the advice about expected rating changes that the game gives you in the window that opens up when a game invitation is pending.
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@thatguythere202 I learned something new (to me) about ratings change the other day. I played someone to a draw and expected no change in ratings. (I am about 400 rating points higher than them) but i saw that i lost 10 points and they gained 9 on that drawn game.
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@jrp32 I'm used to the way that works now. Strangely, I drew a game the other day and there were no rating changes at all, just like how it used to work. Our ratings weren't that different but I was still surprised. It does tell you before playing what the rating changes will be following a drawn game. I don't really glance at that bit though because ties are so uncommon.
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@dan, I agree with the "uncommon" bit since i have 13 draws in over 4300 games. But what type of game tells you beforehand? I have never seen that. I play EMAIL type games exclusively (but online).
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@jrp32 This is what it shows you before playing a live game. In this case my opponent had a 184 point better rating than me before playing. The greyed out bit indicates that I'll gain 5 points following a draw. I don't play the email games but it's a shame if they don't offer this information.
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@dan, no, they don't show that on my desktop computer.
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