2 rating questions: beating up on 10k players, is rank loss proportionate to opponent strength

[Allerleirauh]

I tried playing significantly weaker opponents

Trying new hip way to increase rank

Have you heard the rumor? I’m fond of beating up the weak, I mean, providing weaker players with a gift of learning and giving back to the community. So let’s try it out. On my last account within last 10 games I had an average rating 2.2d, swinging from 1.9d to 2.4d. Average opponent is 1.1d from 3k to 4d. Let’s fire up new account, only 2k and weaker opponents allowed. 40 games for rank to stabilize and 10 games to measure. And the result iiiiiis… 1.4d swinging from 1.1d to 1.7d. One ston…

It didn’t yield much difference to the current rating. Maybe it would be different if I played only ~9 stones weaker players. But maybe not. Maybe one accidental loss due to sandbagging or something would balance out tons of wins against weak players.

I mean, what are you waiting for, try it.