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Topic: Too many protected ratings
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I have won 5 games in a row against opponents 500 points higher but my rating has not changed. My opponents seem a bit frustrated. I am uscf 1750. I can defeat players here that are over 1800 but my rating is stuck at 1143
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Doran, it's because your rating is still provisional (p), so it's just following the awkward rules for provisional players. After you complete 25 games your rating will be established and will begin to follow rules that seem to be more logical.
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Dear Doran,
You don't need to wait until your rating become established. For your next 20 games, I suggest you keep growing by playing opponents no more than 400 points above your current rating. This way, your provisional rating will grow.
Cheers and good luck,
Beco.
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This is a very dubious system, though. If you lose your first game, you end up with a very low rating which is very hard to pull back up to its `true' value. But the whole point of provisional ratings is that they're supposed to move quickly to the `true' value.
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I agree with richerby, and I must say that I don't see the point with "over 400 points difference rule" for provisional ratings (I'm 5 games away from establish rating, so it will "soon" be over for me).
Another thing I would like to point out is that ratings on QA are more relative then anywhere else I've played. You can find people rated relatively high, who are making beginners mistakes, and there are lower rated people who play very solid. The problem is that some people play 50+ games at the same time, and manage to score high points (witch isn't such a problem if they play others who play 50+ games too, and logically there should be much more game offers from "50+ players", than "few game players" ). This is equivalent of having blitz and standard time ratings merged. As a result, you cannot know anything about your opponent strenght and performance by his rating. The "400 points difference" rule just adds to "relativity" of rating system by making (some) people part of that (rating) system only after 25 games (if after ones first game, player plays only opponents rater 400+ than him, he is not a part of rating system, correct me if I'm wrong).
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The usual rule in rating systems is not that games where the rating difference is greater than 400 don't count towards one's rating but, rather, that the rating difference is considered to be 400 in such cases.
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