Extreme stats

Just checked a playing history. Question: Is it realistic for a ratong to drop from 1483 to 860 and then climb up to 1670? I am not questioning the ability to that high rating. I am questioning the consistent drop to 860, and then a consistent rise to 1670. Is this an indication of a player intentionally losing games? Note: this is not an isolated case. I see it often.😳

The only thing that I can think of is that the person timed out a lot of games.

It does look suspicious though.

Depends. My rating dropped by a couple of hundred points and I was only away for about 3 weeks so I think that would be the most likely explanation.

Yeah, I'd be suspicious unless I heard a convincing reason. A 200 point swing is understandable, but a 600 point swing is a different matter.

It can happen if you have 200 games in progress and then when you can't play so you get timeouted by 200 persons. Not rare here indeed.

People take a break and leave for a month and all their games time out. Then they come back on and start to climb in the ratings again. It happens all the time and is nothing to be concerned about. However, it would be suspicious if every game lost on that slide down was to the same opponent.

Yes, people take breaks, and thus their rating drops because they draw or lose perhaps 30 or so games.. Exactly that happend to me some time ago, so I left at a rating of 1622 and still rising, but now I am 1400 somewhere (and I dipped down somewhere at 1300).. which is kind of annoying since I never got to know which my real RHP rating was :/ my hint is: don't take on too many games, better think longer for those you have instead.