Rounding of whole ranks

[troeray]

Hi! Apologies if this has already been discussed in the past or on other threads. Why isn’t there rounding from the tenth of a decimal for showing the whole number for a players rank on OGS? I find it strange, for example, that a 10.1 kyu shows up as “11kyu” even they are way closer numerically to being 10 kyu than 11 kyu.

Why not use simple rounding? If you’re ranking is 5.4 kyu, for example, you are rounded down to “5 kyu” and if you are 5.5 kyu, you are rounded up to “6 kyu.”

It just seems to make more sense to me, perhaps my logic is flawed or creates other issues. Thanks!

[Samraku]

There’s a fairly long discussion/debate on this topic, and I think the conclusion was there might be some slightly better ways of doing it, but it’s hard to agree on which one, and in any case if it’s changed it should be in conjunction with a major rating update, not just alone

[troeray]

I see. Thank you.

[benjito]

Proposal: Make the display of decimal ranks more directly understandable

The current display of decimal ranks in user profiles (e.g., 3.1k) is confusing for many users. This is for instance apparent in a discussion on this topic on the forum, at What rating value can be considered the "middle" of the rank?. This proposal is to update the display of decimal ranks so as to more directly match the underlying rank/rating of users. Specifically, following this update, the displayed decimal rank would always match the user’s integer rank transparently. For instance, a 3k…