Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 09:22:52 06/30/99
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On June 30, 1999 at 10:21:55, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... What he suggests is impractical, but it would have a nice effect upon the rating pool, I bet it would contract a lot. bruce
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