How did I go up two levels from one Championship to the next? General forum
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Dvd Avins at 2017-10-21
Not that I’m complaining. Chess level 2 is probably where I belong now. But last time, I was in level 4. And I didn’t think that’s how it works. It doesn’t look like too many players dropped out, either, as there is still a well-populated Level 4. And I’m one of 10, not 9 players in my section. Is there some rule that moves one up multiple levels if one’s rating is high enough, creating an extra spot in a section?
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Paul Wiselius at 2017-10-22
I had a similar experience 2 years ago. I won a EWN level 3 group, and next I played in level 1. Maybe it has also to do with your actual rating?
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Paul Wiselius at 2017-10-22
Anyway I am testing it right now. Playing at level 4, trying to keep my rating well above 1800. See what happens next ;-)
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richyfourtytwo at 2017-10-22
I think if there are empty spots in the championship there are filled based on rating.
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Dvd Avins at 2017-10-24
Richard explained that if your rating is higher than the average rating of some group above where you’d otherwise be--and if your last finish in a championship section wasn’t last place— then you get placed in the higher group. I vaguely remember when he made that change, but had forgotten that it applied to levels below the top one.
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Paul Wiselius at 2017-10-24
Thanx for explaining Dvd :). Then it was a good idea for me to stop playing those 1-point EWN tournaments, they give the risc of very fluctuating ratings (maybe Richard should use a different algorithm for rating changes for 1-point EWN games?!). Now I have a chance to promote from level 4 to 2...
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Carroll ★ at 2018-01-22
I back up another rating constant K for Ewn 1-point games, I tried not playing them any more because I don’t want a random fluctuating rating.
Any math geek can propose a right constant?
In this thread: https://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/forum/topic2.jsp?forum=140&topic=183,
YHW used K=3 and Darse K=4, saying "The B-T column is the Bradley-Terry rating with a K factor of 4 (one eighth of the value used on Little Golem). That means a player winning a game against an equally rated opponent would gain 2 points instead of 16. However, K = 4 is still too high for satisfactory stability."
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Dvd Avins at 2018-03-03
In multi-game matches, it would make sense to vary K proportionally with the square root of the number of games.
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Hjallti at 2018-03-04
It also would make sense to use the result of the game rather than w=1 for a win w= 0 for a loss in the formula. If I win 5-2 it would mean w=5/7 for me and w= 2/7 for the opponent.