Russ, how about those

rating floors? Have you taken a look at some of the recently tournaments? In the lower banded tournaments the winners for the most part are 200 over the bands they won. Tournaments seem to be a great way of recovering rating points, but really do little more than treat the real players in the band as cannon fodder.

Originally posted by cheshirecatstevens
rating floors? Have you taken a look at some of the recently tournaments? In the lower banded tournaments the winners for the most part are 200 over the bands they won. Tournaments seem to be a great way of recovering rating points, but really do little more than treat the real players in the band as cannon fodder.

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Originally posted by cheshirecatstevens
rating floors?

Originally posted by cheshirecatstevens
rating floors? Have you taken a look at some of the recently tournaments? In the lower banded tournaments the winners for the most part are 200 over the bands they won. Tournaments seem to be a great way of recovering rating points, but really do little more than treat the real players in the band as cannon fodder.

Originally posted by FabianFnas
To deal with rating floors may be a good solution, but I also see some problems. Sandbaggers are always a problem. That's the real problem that should be attended to.

I'm sure that Russ, the creator, is aware of the problem. He will think out something, trust me. Perhaps he will come up with something more geniously than any of us mere mortals has ability to think of.

Originally posted by cheshirecatstevens
rating floors? Have you taken a look at some of the recently tournaments? In the lower banded tournaments the winners for the most part are 200 over the bands they won. Tournaments seem to be a great way of recovering rating points, but really do little more than treat the real players in the band as cannon fodder.

Originally posted by pineapple42
that would be nice, but those goddamned twirling clocks... please please can we have static ones?

Originally posted by SwissGambit
That's exactly what rating floors are designed to do; stop sandbagging. That's their primary purpose.

Originally posted by pineapple42
that would be nice, but those goddamned twirling clocks... please please can we have static ones?

Originally posted by FabianFnas
There are sandbaggers everywhere, not only in banded tournaments.

I hate when I lose to someone 500 points below me because he lost many games right before he won aginst me, and according to his skill should have 200 points above me. He gets 30 points from me, not very well earned.

I hate sandbaggers wherever I find them. Rating floors don't stop them at all.

Originally posted by SwissGambit
It sounds like you do not understand how rating floors actually work, or do not realize that they have not been implemented on this site.

Here's what they'd do to help your situation. Say you start a game against an established 2100+ player. He would have a floor of 1900 [200 points below established class - classes are every hundred points]. No matte ...[text shortened]... beats you, he does so as a 1900 player at worst, and thus cannot take 30 points away from you.

Originally posted by FabianFnas
Oh, if it's like you described, then I didn't understand it... Thank you for clarification.

Does this mean that, as an example, I go to jail (Yale?) or something, cannot reach an internet connection for half a year, then I only lose 200 rating points at the most? When I start playing again I start 200 points below my current rating? Correct?

What ab any?

I have to think this over again, perhaps I wont be so negative anymore, let's see...

Originally posted by SwissGambit
You can lose 299 points at most. You could be rated 1999 [and you must be established as an over-1900 player, meaning you have been over 1900 for several games in a row]; this is rounded down to the nearest hundred, and 200 points are subtracted for a floor of 1700. If you came back, you'd still be 1700. [This also keeps you out of low-band tourneys, and ...[text shortened]...
Yes, opponents who beat you when you're on your floor gain points while you don't lose any.

As I have done a few times before I add my supportt to that idea. However I fear it might never come true