Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:21:55 06/30/99
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On June 30, 1999 at 09:46:06, blass uri wrote: > >On June 30, 1999 at 08:52:59, Peter McKenzie wrote: > >>On June 30, 1999 at 08:27:30, blass uri wrote: >> >>>I think that there should be competitions when everyone must agree to play >>>everyone. >>> >>>Rating of players should be based *only* on the results of these competitions. >>> >>>players who refuse to compete for a long time should have no rating. >>>players who win a competition(except the winner of the strongest competition) >>>can play next time in a competition of better rated players when players who >>>lose will play next time in a competition of worse players. >> >>I don't like this idea, and fortunately it has zero chance of happening: >> >>People pay good money to play on ICC, having your rating calculated is a valued >>part of the service provided. The rules you suggest would obviously make it >>much less convenient for the majority of people to play rated games, therefore >>they would be less likely to shell out their subscription money. Hmm, I wonder >>if the nice folks at ICC want to drastically decrease their income? > >It is possible to have 2 rating systems. > >The reason for my idea is that I find that the rating is misleading if people >can avoid playing specific opponents. > >Uri I don't see how this can be helped. It has happened in human rating systems since Elo hatched the idea. we have 'sandbaggers' (those who keep their rating low so they can win class prizes in a class lower than they should be playing in) and those with inflated ratings because they 'pick' their events to play in. Always have had 'em... probably always will. ICC is _huge_. There is no way to 'enforce' what you suggest, because there is no way to have an event with 50,000 players at one time. So the problem will _always_ exist there...
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