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  • Kathleen GayleK Offline
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    Kathleen Gayle
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    Please explain how a ranking is achieved. It seems as if one gets much fewer ranking points when winning than several months ago.

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      the ratings rely on the "ELO" system which means you get less points playing plays of similar or lower ratings than you and more for beating players with higher ratings - you can check out the details on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system

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        Do you mean ranking in games?

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          Do you mean ranking in games?

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          @betterlate1 I assumed that was what the question was about! Maybe there's some other kind of ranking system unknown to me. I'm a refugee from the dreadful new "scrabble go" platform - quite why any company would abandon a perfectly good app for something so crap is beyond me!!

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            If you play someone close to your rank and win you get a couple points. If you play someone way over your rank and win ..lot of points . Way under,you lose a lot of rank. Way under and close-you could win minimal points but they can also gain. Hope this helps

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              you appear to have missed the point - I was replying to the question about rankings - not asking about them - I pretty much said exactly the same thing in different words!! But thanks anyway!!

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                you appear to have missed the point - I was replying to the question about rankings - not asking about them - I pretty much said exactly the same thing in different words!! But thanks anyway!!

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                @tim-bastable You appear to have missed the point. I was speaking to Kathleen. Thanks for your input tho

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                • tim bastableT tim bastable

                  you appear to have missed the point - I was replying to the question about rankings - not asking about them - I pretty much said exactly the same thing in different words!! But thanks anyway!!

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                  @tim-bastable Tim - some people don't read other's comments, they just like to answer their own way, despite it being answered (as you had done).

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                    @Pangloss very true we all do not read out of a book . or go to wiki thanks.

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                      I think starting people at 1200 is a bad policy.
                      It used to be a median starting ranking of 1600.
                      Where people could go up or down from.

                      1200 is very low and wastes a person's time climbing up and getting complaints of cheating along the way.

                      Only defense I can think of for 1200 is that it might dissuade folks form opening multiple accounts.

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                      • tim bastableT tim bastable

                        @betterlate1 I assumed that was what the question was about! Maybe there's some other kind of ranking system unknown to me. I'm a refugee from the dreadful new "scrabble go" platform - quite why any company would abandon a perfectly good app for something so crap is beyond me!!

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                        @tim-bastable

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                          @Ginger-Rodgers totally agree!!!

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                            Niki35
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                            Why is the scoring so unfair? If I win I get very few points and if I lose I get clobbered! Please can someone explain? I am now trailing in score someone against whom I have won far more games. N.

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                              Why is the scoring so unfair? If I win I get very few points and if I lose I get clobbered! Please can someone explain? I am now trailing in score someone against whom I have won far more games. N.

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                              @niki35 As someone remarked earlier on this thread, it depends on your relative ratings ("ranking"). If you have a rating of 1500 and you beat someone with a 2000 rating, you get big points out of that. But if that much higher rated player beats you, they get minimal points.

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                                Thank you for taking the trouble to reply to my post.

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