Strange rating-thing

I just noticed that my rating dropped 18 points from drawing to a 1600, from 1875 to 1857... after thinking that's a bit much, I went to check and saw that from those 18 I lost about 9 points by winning from a 1330 player. Isn't that a bit weird? I don't care too much about rating, but I think that this is just incorrect, something went wrong with the site or something.

Originally posted by davaniel
I just noticed that my rating dropped 18 points from drawing to a 1600, from 1875 to 1857... after thinking that's a bit much, I went to check and saw that from those 18 I lost about 9 points by winning from a 1330 player. Isn't that a bit weird? I don't care too much about rating, but I think that this is just incorrect, something went wrong with the site or something.

Of course. It's just that before he accepted to that draw, I had a rating of 1875, and right after it went down to 1857, and all of a sudden I went 9 or so points down from the game before, that I won.

Edit: That game before against 1324 or so, I went from 1874 to 1866 instead of from 1874 to 1875, what it had been before.

You should have gained 1 point from that won game. I've just checked your profile graph and you did actually gain the 1 point. Perhaps there's another game you didn't allow for, as well.

On my profile graph you can see that I didn't gain the 1 point from that game, but lost 8 points. The 1 point I gained from 1873 to 1874 is from the other game against the same player that I won. I should've gained 1 point twice.

Originally posted by davaniel
On my profile graph you can see that I didn't gain the 1 point from that game, but lost 8 points. The 1 point I gained from 1873 to 1874 is from the other game against the same player that I won. I should've gained 1 point twice.

damn, does this mean ive to keep track of my rating?🙁

I play at another site. Recently I lost 3 and draw 2 games to lower rated players(rather questionable). I had a little over a 200 point rate drop. The losses I can live with?????But those draws that cost huge numbers just arent fair. Often I give a draw when a game is even and will really drag on for infinity. Is there justice in the system? Who knows whats fair. Sometimes I wish the rating system would just go away.

sometimes i wish poo was food, so no little kids had to die anymore for lack of food, but i guess sometimes its just not that simple🙂