Overall rank calculation

Overall rank is calculated by doing the Glicko calculation and updating your rank from every game you play.

If you beat someone better than you, you get lots of ranking points. If you beat someone weaker than you you don’t get many.

If you lose to someone stronger than you, you don’t lose many ranking points. If you lose to someone weaker than you, you lose more ranking points.

For overall rank, this calculation is applied regardless of game type or size.

The other ranks are calculated by updating only with games of those size or speed.

Thus those ranks each come from different pools of results, and therefore end up different - if you lose every blitz game you play, your blitz ranks will be low, but your overall rank could still be high if you rarely play blitz and win all your correspondence games, for example.

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