Rankings aren't logical.

Is it just me, or should 8 players who share the same rating (say:1471) have the same rank as well?? If there are 25 people on the site who are rated 1471 then how can one of them be ranked 1000 and another ranked 1025?

valid point, but does it *really* matter?

decimal places?

win / loss ratio?

Time at that rating?

Draws?

Originally posted by pineapple42
decimal places?

ya

Originally posted by pineapple42
decimal places?

How would that work? you can't put decimals into rating.

Originally posted by marinakatomb
Is it just me, or should 8 players who share the same rating (say:1471) have the same rank as well?? If there are 25 people on the site who are rated 1471 then how can one of them be ranked 1000 and another ranked 1025?

i guess optimal would be if all 25 people rated 1471 had a ranking of 1000,
then all the people rated 1472 had a ranking of 1026.

but of course: DOE IT MATTER?

Originally posted by flexmore
i guess optimal would be if all 25 people rated 1471 had a ranking of 1000,
then all the people rated 1472 had a ranking of 1026.

but of course: DOE IT MATTER?

Surely you mean people with rating of 1470 have a ranking of 1026.

Originally posted by XanthosNZ
Surely you mean people with rating of 1470 have a ranking of 1026.

actualy - smartypants - i meant people rated 1470 have a ranking of 1025

Originally posted by flexmore
but of course: DOES IT MATTER?

It is my sworn duty as defender of all that is petty and melodramatic to raise these issues to somehow boost my ranking a bit 😛

Originally posted by flexmore
i guess optimal would be if all 25 people rated 1471 had a ranking of 1000,
then all the people rated 1472 had a ranking of 1026.

but of course: DOE IT MATTER?

You could then sort them by highest rating in last month (which is what tournament eligibility goes on) the odds of two people being the same would then be sufficiently remote that it really wouldn't matter. Maybe this is what they do.

Originally posted by DeepThought
Maybe this is what they do.

Nope. If our ratings are equal, we are ranked in boring old alphabetical order...

If I had progrmmed RHP, I guess I might have defined "Rating" as a real number, but clearly it has been implemented as an integer.