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In a thread in another category, someone posted that the TER is inaccurate as it does not reflect the actual rating of a player. I think it does exactly what it was designed to do though I understand the concern. I was wondering if anyone had suggestions on how to change the TER to improve it?


@lstcyr said
In a thread in another category, someone posted that the TER is inaccurate as it does not reflect the actual rating of a player. I think it does exactly what it was designed to do though I understand the concern. I was wondering if anyone had suggestions on how to change the TER to improve it?
The tournament entry rating was (as I understand it) brought in to prevent abuse of rated tournaments where sandbaggers could dump a load of non-tournament games to appear lower rated and then enter tournaments where they'd have a distinct advantage.
The Tournament entry rating therefore stays "high" for longer. This helps to weed out abnormal behaviour.

We're working on the definition of a "normal" player ... sadly the algorithm at present, detects too many false positives.

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@orangutan said
The tournament entry rating was (as I understand it) brought in to prevent abuse of rated tournaments where sandbaggers could dump a load of non-tournament games to appear lower rated and then enter tournaments where they'd have a distinct advantage.
The Tournament entry rating therefore stays "high" for longer. This helps to weed out abnormal behaviour.

We're working o ...[text shortened]... efinition of a "normal" player ... sadly the algorithm at present, detects too many false positives.
Also,the TER can be inaccurate because it is based on a calculation of current rating.For other reasons,current rating can be inaccurate.For example,if a player loses a lot of games by timeout his current rating will plummet.You then play him and lose,and your current rating is affected.
The only reliable player rating is probably the 5 year one

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@lstcyr

In fact there is no "accurate" rating. Since there is no objective measure.

As was pointed out before the TER is skewed to the highest rating in a year. So if a person had a big rating spike, they may suffer for a year. But this is the same for everyone.

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