Should never-used ratings categories follow the overall rating?

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@dexonsmith

Probably it would be nice to make these categories correct enough that they could be used for matchmaking

From my understanding of @BHydden’s post a while back, those categories were once separate:

@BHydden

This is how it now works as far as I understand it, meaning they are not as distinct and incomparable as they once were.

@BHydden also once mentioned that anoek tested having a combined rating for all sizes and time settings and found it beneficial:

Automatic handicap set by "Overall" rank

In short, anoek tested it and found “more data makes game result prediction more good” regardless of board size and timing options. Of course there might be outliers, but when considering the reliability of the rating system across the site, using just the overall rank returned the best results.

@Groin also mentioned something similar:

@Groin

Testing were made by @anoek himself, and I think reported in this thread