Originally posted by duecer
I was looking at the fancy new feature on "my home" page, and noticed that my average opponent rating is more than 200 points higher than my current rating, and 70 points higher than my highest rating (90 days).
This peaked my interest a bit, and I've been checking out some other players and noticed some are the other direction. They have ratings significantly higher than their average opponent rating. kinda makes ya think.
I suppose.
But don't read too much into it. I for example have entered a lot of tournaments and been matched with lower rated opposition. I play a trickle of higher ranked opponents too. In the end, the rating averages out. You keep playing players ranked well above you, and presumably losing most of them, meaning your lower comparative rating is probably accurate.
I might play lots of players ranked below me, but as long as I beat them always, it means my higher rating is accurate.
As soon as you win some of yours against better players, and I lose some of mine against lesser player, our rating averages to reflect it.
You can't argue with a rating, even if you manipulate your choice of opposition. Because if you keep playing way above your ability, you will never get any rating points, and if I keep playing way below mine, I wont get any rating points. For our ratings to change, we will have to pick closer opponents, and then our ratings will be calibrated.
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