rating floors
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 4:51 am
I read that there are many rating floors in the US federation
http://www.glicko.net/ratings/rating.system.pdf
For example
I read the following in the uscf rating rules.
"A player who earns the original Life Master (OLM) title, which occurs when a player keeps an
established rating above 2200 for 300 (not necessarily consecutive) rated games, will obtain
a rating floor of 2200"
What is the logic behind this rule?
Suppose a chess player continue to play chess when he is old and he becomes weaker.
logic say that his chess rating should go down but I understand the rating will practically remain 2200 even if he is at level of 1900.
Note that in israel there is another illogical rules for the weak levels and there is a rule that the rating cannot go down if it is below 1400
so if the calculation shows that the rating go down from 1340 to 1300 the rating is going to remain 1340.
I wonder if there is another country with these stupid rules when rating can only go up at some range(that is different than rating floors when only getting the rating is not enough to never go down below the rating).
http://www.glicko.net/ratings/rating.system.pdf
For example
I read the following in the uscf rating rules.
"A player who earns the original Life Master (OLM) title, which occurs when a player keeps an
established rating above 2200 for 300 (not necessarily consecutive) rated games, will obtain
a rating floor of 2200"
What is the logic behind this rule?
Suppose a chess player continue to play chess when he is old and he becomes weaker.
logic say that his chess rating should go down but I understand the rating will practically remain 2200 even if he is at level of 1900.
Note that in israel there is another illogical rules for the weak levels and there is a rule that the rating cannot go down if it is below 1400
so if the calculation shows that the rating go down from 1340 to 1300 the rating is going to remain 1340.
I wonder if there is another country with these stupid rules when rating can only go up at some range(that is different than rating floors when only getting the rating is not enough to never go down below the rating).