Dear all! We just shipped a new feature to OGS
Now, anyone can compare their Rating/Rank against the distribution histogram of all active/established players (Rating Deviation<200). This will be available in your Profile Card under the “Ratings Grid” , just press the “Compare to Global Distribution” !
The distribution data will be updated daily, but currently limited to “Overall” category only and constricted to 100-3100 practical range of Glicko2 system!
This was a looong awaited feature, similar to Lichess (Weekly Classical rating distribution • lichess.org )
More info on the Pull Request: New Feature Request: #2431 Player Rating Histogram by viczommers · Pull Request #3009 · online-go/online-go.com · GitHub Rank histogram · Issue #2431 · online-go/online-go.com · GitHub online-go.com/termination-api/rating-histogram
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Gia
March 28, 2025, 8:37pm
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sees her rank compared to global distribution
-Excuse me, sir, how can I hide this feature forever? cries uncontrollably
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We were so preoccupied with whether or not we could, we didn’t stop to think if we should
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How many are “established” but didn’t have any ranked game for a year or several years?
all previous (unofficial) attempts have sdk in the middle
A year has passed since the last time. I don’t have time to test these, let’s hope everything is ok.
Traditional six-month player distribution by rank:
[Histogram 2022]
Percentiles at the bottom are based on green part as all weaker players + half of given rank.
[Histogram 2022 Onion]
[Histogram 2022 Veteran]
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(in currently ongoing live or blitz games on OGS, [4k] is usually around 7.7% among all currently playing not correspondence users)
it doesn’t necessarily mean that more [4k] users exist than other ranks. It may mean that [4k] play more often than others
games against bots are excluded
correspondence games are not included
like above but with standard board sizes:
[image]
from 19.07 to 24.07 every several hours saved https://online-go.com/observe-games pages
did it 15 times, te…
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@viczommers just created their OGS account less than a month ago and already has a massive new feature added before even their first forum post
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@viczommers Not sure if I’m going crazy but I don’t see the button to turn this on
@masterps Go to your profile page and click this button
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Works now, thank you for the quick response
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I don’t think you’re that bad off. I’d only be really concerned if I was under 25%. Even then, when I started my rating was 700 (12%), and now it’s about 1150 (50%).
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Recruit them for developer team?
It’s not that easy
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Saint
March 29, 2025, 7:32am
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Sorry, can anyone explain to me what “Cumulative” and procentage means?
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jlt
March 29, 2025, 8:08am
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In short, “cumulative : x%” means that x% of the players are weaker.
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ty!
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Nice feature! But I realised that I can only see the exact percentage at fixed points but not the point that corresponds to my user?
Maybe a nicer way to put it is (100-x)% of the players are stronger
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Jon_Ko
March 29, 2025, 1:38pm
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Is there more to the proof?
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gennan
March 29, 2025, 1:57pm
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Is that empirical proof related to this? vv
My rating on lichess is ~1100 vs ~2100 on OGS.
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!
proper dev team only really has 2.5 people, but help like this is always welcome.
sadly, it was easier to empirically prove that go is tougher than chess than to improve my own go rating 
median rating on lichess is 1550 vs ~1150 on OGS