inflating ratings

Hi,

I dont know if people are doing this or not. I hope not. Well here goes. I see some people have crazy amounts of games going on. Like a 100. I wonder what is going on there. What if they only actively play the games they are winning. So these games will finish quick, and will affect their ratings. Then they might start a new game. The games that are not going to well they move as infrequently as they can. Therefore these games take a longer time to finish. Eventually all games finish, even the loosing ones, but the time it takes to loose one game might be enough time to win ten games.

What do you guys think. Is this a real problem, or does it all equal out in the end.

/Petke

thats happened to me i was playing some guy who was rated 1650 and at the end of the game he dropped to 1302. also i played someone rated 1800 and i looked at who he was playing and the only people he would play is 1500 and 1600 players never anything above that.

Thinking about it a bit more.. Yeah, it all equals out in the end. And you would have to babysitt a increasing amount of loosing games. So it probably would not make sense.

Originally posted by Patrik Kahari
Hi,

I dont know if people are doing this or not. I hope not. Well here goes. I see some people have crazy amounts of games going on. Like a 100. I wonder what is going on there. What if they only actively play the games they are winning. So these games will finish quick, and will affect their ratings. Then they might start a new game. The games that ...[text shortened]...
What do you guys think. Is this a real problem, or does it all equal out in the end.

/Petke

My rating has a cyclic component. It varies around 200 points. This is because I have a lot of games going at once. I don't stall in games I am losing but it still happens. Not that it really matters in the end.