A New Rating System

1. Some General Remarks.
2. A Trip through the Questions of Rating.
3. Frequently Asked Questions and Organizational Procedures.
4. Can the Tournament be rated?
5. Information for Tournament Managers.
Index

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Some General Remarks.

1.1 What has been done so far and what I am doing now.
1.2 Who owns what.

A Trip through the Questions of Rating.

2.1 Who should understand this? Who understands this?
2.2 Tea for Two.
2.3 Jackpot: Who Owns 2000 Points?
2.4 Let the Scores Flow!
2.5 Game Results are Coarse Data.
2.6 Fame and Glory Fading away...

Tea for Two.

2.2.1 Which Player is better?
2.2.2 Form on the Day, Rating Scale and Classes.
2.2.3 Both Players have a Form on the Day.
2.2.4 Two Players of Equal Strength Compete Against Each Other.
2.2.5 When Does the Stronger Player Lose?
2.2.6 The Winning Expectancy.
2.2.7 Our first Rating.

Game Results are Coarse Data.

2.5.1 Why do Ratings Stagger Around?
2.5.2 How Precise is my Rating?

Fame and Glory Fading away...

2.6.1 The Problem of Time Dependence.
2.6.2 Static and Dynamic Rating
2.6.3 Time Dependence in Elo-Rating
2.6.4 How we do it.

Frequently Asked Questions and Organizational Procedures.

3.1 What do the tables say?
3.2 Will the Ranking Change?
3.3 Rating and Ranking. What do I make of that?
3.4 How Can I Get a Rating?
3.5 How Can I Get a Ranking?
3.6 My Rating has dropped
3.7 My Rating Has Changed Though I Did Not Play!
3.8 The Scoring has Changed.
3.9 Can this system be used for Online Rating?
3.10 How can I read this Script Offline?

What do the tables say?

3.1.1 A Tiny Table for Reference.
3.1.2 Overview over the Columns.
3.1.3 Heaven and Blood: The Background Colors.
3.1.4 Wish You Were Here. But now You Are Gray.

Can the Tournament be rated?

4.1 Player Identity: Who is Who?
4.2 Who Scored against Whom?
4.3 Tournament Status: Fun or Glory?
4.4 Transmission: Making Life Easier.

Player Identity: Who is Who?

4.1.1 Trivial Misspellings.
4.1.2 Transliterations of Foreign Names.
4.1.3 Different Spellings Relating to the Same Pronunciation.
4.1.4 Name is not Unique.
4.1.5 Mixing up Prenames and Surnames.
4.1.6 Pet names ans Short Forms.

Tournament Status: Fun or Glory?

4.3.1 Only the Organizer Knows ...
4.3.2 Troublemakers Can Mess it Up.

Information for Tournament Managers.

5.1 The Current Ratings
5.2 The Rating Programs
5.3 All Tournament Data.
5.4 The Formal Description of the Procedure.