OGS has a new Glicko-2 based rating system! [2017]

[Eugene]

@anoek

What I’m seeing (and I’ve seen this on a few other profiles as well) is that you’re playing a lot of stronger opponents, which is great for getting better, but has resulted in a lot of consecutive losses. Glicko, for better and worse, tends to accelerate your rank change when you have a lot of consecutive wins or losses.

I’m going to have to think on this a bit. It’s come up a few times now and it’s a a very legitimate approach to getting better at the game so I don’t like that the system is punishing players who play a lot of stronger opponents.

I think it would bear pondering long and hard whether this is in fact a “problem” that “should be tackled”.

We can see that the best way to rank up is not necessarily the best way to learn.

But who says that it should be?

Remember that we need people to play down as well as up, otherwise who do the lower people play against to rank up?

What this means is that if you have someone who is always playing up, and as a result learning a lot but losing a lot so not ranking up, then the indication is that it’s time for them to pass it forwards.

They need to play down some more, and as a result they will both pay back the favour they received, allowing lower players than them to play up and learn, and also reap the rewards of their learning by actually winning and ranking up.

So Julko … it looks like you owe the weaker players about 2500 games. By the time you’ve done that and won most of them, you will be ranked where you deserve.

GaJ