Yet another ratings thread

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@SouthernGoPlayer

Thinking about a player at a specific rank boundary they are in the Glicko2 sense closer to ranking down than to ranking up. I would say they have more downside risk than upside risk as players -1 rank different are closer to them than players +1 rank different are.

I think there was some discussion about that previously as well, I think @gennan had some proposals on alternate ways of displaying ranks

Proposal: Make the display of decimal ranks more directly understandable

On KGS, the 1k label would be placed at the lower boundary of the 1k range (system C). It does seem like on Pandanet the 1k rank label is in the middle of the 1k half-rank range (centered between the promotion line and the demotion line), so I would characterise that graph more as a system B solution, except applied to half-ranks instead of full ranks. At least, I assume you are currently labeled as a 1k on Pandanet? Or are you 2k+ there? Perhaps the Pandanet system could be visualised like t…

Just in case any of them appeal to you over the other or the current way.