The number of days considered when calculating the "Tournament Entry Rating" has been increased to 365 days, from 100, to help prevent "sandbagging" in tournaments.

The Tournament Entry Rating for every player is available from the profile page, as before.

Now that's more like it Russ. I don't care what they say about you, you are a good man. 😛😛😛😛😛

Originally posted by hiphop
Now that's more like it Russ. I don't care what they say about you, you are a good man. 😛😛😛😛😛

Originally posted by zozozozo
How "good" was he? 😛😛😛😛😛

Excellent move. However one small point. It can happen that a player's rating 'spikes' considerably because a much higher rated player resigns games even though in clear winning positions. This distorts a rating and it does seem unfair that a player is penalised for a year through no fault of their own.

That said, it is a small price to pay for what is a good move to go to 365 days. May be some refinement to deal with the 'spiking issue' could be considered?

Originally posted by jayaitch
Excellent move. However one small point. It can happen that a player's rating 'spikes' considerably because a much higher rated player resigns games even though in clear winning positions. This distorts a rating and it does seem unfair that a player is penalised for a year through no fault of their own.

That said, it is a small price to pay for what is ...[text shortened]... to 365 days. May be some refinement to deal with the 'spiking issue' could be considered?

This can be adjusted by removing the 10% highest and lowest values first (meaning 10 highest values and 10 lowest values from a total of 100 values) and then calculating the average.

365 days is a great improvement, thanks Russ.

The tiny differences caused by things like the Korch meltdown are just that, TINY.

Originally posted by jayaitch
Excellent move. However one small point. It can happen that a player's rating 'spikes' considerably because a much higher rated player resigns games even though in clear winning positions. This distorts a rating and it does seem unfair that a player is penalised for a year through no fault of their own.

That said, it is a small price to pay for what is ...[text shortened]... to 365 days. May be some refinement to deal with the 'spiking issue' could be considered?

I Need some understanding. Why in a 0 days 21 days time bank, I got 2 time out while I was actually playing with no warning when all my other games have many days left re May 2009 Banded Hardcore Grand I 1400-1450
Description ZERO day timeout. 21 day timebank. Everyone should be time-out at the same time? or what is it that i do not understand

Originally posted by Russ
The number of days considered when calculating the "Tournament Entry Rating" has been increased to 365 days, from 100, to help prevent "sandbagging" in tournaments.

The Tournament Entry Rating for every player is available from the profile page, as before.

I've gone up 200 points in entry rating from a high of 1500 last Aug 08.

Looks like I must play smarter from now on.

Over all good move Russ

Great improvement..

Speaking as a 2000+ player, I'm not thrilled with the idea of seeing 1400 rated players [who used to be 2000] in the high-band tourneys... 😕

Originally posted by SwissGambit
Speaking as a 2000+ player, I'm not thrilled with the idea of seeing 1400 rated players [who used to be 2000] in the high-band tourneys... 😕