You know, Level or Grade changes whenever a game ends, but the Overall plot is a Time-Level figure.
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Do you want a plot of the rating changes (like +0.3, -0.1, +0.2 and so on after each match) over time?
Edit: Never mind. I misunderstood. You want the plot of rating change vs game #.
Yeah, ratings change when games end, so that a Game-Rating curve makes more sense!
It used to be like that, before Glicko - a per game rating graph.
It makes heaps more sense to me.
I canât recall precisely what the argument is for per-day.
One argument is that Glicko is supposed to derate us over time-since-last-game. But Iâm not sure if thatâs implemented here.
Is there any other reason why per-game rating would not make sense?
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Itâd be nice to add it in a second graph, either a toggle or another way of presenting. Maybe not to replace the current graph entirely.
I donât think one can see the Glicko deflation until another game is played. I thought I read somewhere (GitHub?) that while itâs supposed to happen over time, it wonât appear until something causes a rating update.
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In a game, you could find nice moves and bad moves, i.e. winrates up and down. And one can link moves from a winrate curve.
In many games, you want to find nice games and bad games, i.e. ratings up and down. But one can not link games from his or her Time-Ratings curve!
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I like time.
In my chart it shows that I had a long break after my first games.
Itâs someway telling us something about the life of the player.
In a game based chart we couldnât understand if someone is playing since long time or if heâs just playing a lot of games.
I think time makes the chart more meaningful
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I love how we always totally disagree on things that are simply a matter of opinion! Itâs amazing having another person I know who seems to always have the opposite opinion to me on things that donât really matter one way or the other 
I reckon you should be able to press a button to toggle one view or the other. Unfortunately, I think that the way the graph is presented is closely controlled by the back-end - efficiency rather than flexibility being chosen in the tradeoff.
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Completely front end. Itâs using the rating history, which stretches 5000 games in the past. To change something there is just a matter of working with a graphic library in ugly JavaScript.
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Oh, thatâs great news. I had the strong impression that the API in use returned rank-by-day, rather than rank-by-game.
If itâs by-game, then there must be some code bunching it up into days that I donât recall, but it was some time ago now that I was in there.
You are so correct that the code in there is something to be contended with. But ⌠armed with the knowledge that the API is suitable, I might don my sword and shield and take a lookâŚ
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So I hacked and slashed, and have a switch to get a basic per-game graph.
I need to do a lot of tidying now - just letting you know I havenât forgotten.
PS: what I like about the per-game rank graph is that there are no step changes in it. This test account didnât âsuddenlyâ become 8k, as per the by-time graph, that happened over a sequence of 4 games at the beginning, for example.
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I just forgot it barely before your replyđ
If you zoom in the time-rating graph, the step will disappear. Anyhow, thatâs a reason why I suggest a game-rating graph besides. People are not always playing go games at the same frequency. If long time no game, the time-rating graph will be a step up and a horizontal line. Itâs a little boring before you zoom in and zoom out.
You canât zoom into days. If there are lots of games on one day, thatâs a step change.
But as you say - this is why Iâm going for graph-by-game: precisely so that lots-on-one-day and big-gaps-between-any-playing are removed all at once, instead of requiring zooming in and out 
Sounds nice!
Could add gamesâ preview below when hit a point on the game-rating graph? And one can link to the game page if he hit the preview. Is it possible to realize?
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Itâs a fantastic idea. Iâll certainly look into that after the basic thing is working.
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I was on team timeline until this comment⌠this would be a SICK feature⌠great suggestion SimpleVoin
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(The basic function, not the SICK features )
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What do you mean by team timeline and sick feature? This feature will conflict with the main branch of OGSâs Github Repo?
Bhydden meant that he was in favour of the timeline view of ratings before your feature suggestion.
Sick feature is a compliment.
Overall his message said âWhat a good idea, if this is implemented, I think I would use the game view instead of the timeline viewâ 
Iâm nearly done with a first try at the Sick feature. It wonât conflict, it will merge cleanly.
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Thanks for the translation into the Queenâs English 
Except for maybe some trailing white space haha
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