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?Online tournament rule
Posted By: Daniel Murphy In Response To: ?Online tournament rule (Carlo Melzi)
Date: Tuesday, 18 October 2011, at 7:59 p.m.
Some online players "care about" their rating. Some online players who care about their rating want to have an option to play unrated matches. This desire is accommodated on some but not all servers. On a server that rates all matches, the default in a tournament match is not an issue. Gridgammon allows rated and unrated match play. In pick-up matches, there is no default: if the players don't agree on rated/unrated, they don't play. In some tournaments, however, there is a default. I'm informed by the director of the "TheBlitz" tournament that:
"all tournament matches hosted here are rated unless both players agree to play unrated and it is ok'd by the tourney host."I assume that "all tournament matches" means hosted tournaments like the Daily Double, TheBlitz, GridBlitz and NackBlitz. Other directors and other sites may have the opposite rule, though, that tournament matches are unrated unless players agree to play rated.
The example is given of wanting to have an option to play unrated when your opponent is obviously underrated. The example is an opponent whose true rating might be, let's say, 2000, but is new to the server and rated 1500. This makes me curious to know what difference it actually makes to the highly rated experienced player whose opponent is new and underrated.
Note first that your new opponent's experience (TMP) has no affect on how many point you win or lose. The only importance of TMP to you is to indicate whether or not your opponent's rating is likely to have reached a "true" rating (plus or minus 150 points or so!).
So let's suppose you are rated 1965 and your opponent is rated either 1500 or 2000, and let's see how many rating points you win or lose:
Match length 1965 vs. 1500 1965 vs. 2000 You win You lose You win You lose 3 +1.96 -4.96 +3.58 -3.34 5 +2.08 -6.87 +4.67 -4.27 7 +2.07 -8.52 +5.57 -5.01 9 +2.01 -9.99 +6.36 -5.64 11 +1.92 -11.34 +7.08 -6.19 13 +1.83 -12.59 +7.73 -6.69 15 +1.73 -13.76 +8.35 -7.14 17 +1.63 -14.86 +8.93 -7.56 The reader can decide whether the difference is worth caring about. I would ask, though:
(1) if the new player "cares about" his rating and wants to play rated, why would his desire be less compelling than his opponent's?
(2) If every opponent of a new and presumably underrated player refused to play rated matches with this player, when would this new player's rating ever change?
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