Why does "restrict rank" allow ? players?

[GreenAsJade]

I little bit further down in that thread we have…

@mekriff

From my understanding glicko needs a central starting point

Actually no… Glicko doesn’t NEED it, Glicko RECOMMENDS it. And the statistics when setting it up (as we are told) has more accuracy when it starts at 1500.

… and I found why I thought it was true:

@anoek

Just to chime in here, I am certainly open to suggestions on how to improve the new user experience. Everything you wrote is true, I do think it’s the mathematically best way of placing folks quickly, but that doesn’t mean it’s the best user experience by any stretch.