LGC Ladder
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Introduction
Thinking of fun things for us, the Louisville Go Club, to do is what keeps me up day and night. OK, not really, but I have been thinking it might be fun to start a ladder. What is a ladder?
Think about an actual ladder you'd climb up. It's a vertical thing with rungs, and you step on the rungs to go up or down. Simple, right? A club ladder is the same thing. Each person is a rung, and the people are ordered from strongest (probably Don Wiener, 6 dan) to weakest (perhaps me or another newbie.) The goal is to rise to the top of the ladder, or at least keep from dropping. When a person below you beats you in a challenge, s/he may rise one or more rungs, and you may fall one or more.
So is anybody interested, and if so, do you have any ideas for how to design it? Your comments are welcome on the Discussion page.
As far as the logistics of where the ladder will be posted, our website is the best idea. If we want to be fancy and automate it, I can write a simple web application that facilitates administration.
The (proposed) Rules
- Position on the ladder is determined by means of the
ELO system.
- A person may only challenge someone higher on the ladder than him/herself.
- Two players may only play each other once per meeting. No rematches.
- Games between two AGA members will be rated.
- Initially, everyone starts with an ELO score of 1500. One's position on the ladder is then determined by the outcome of games.
- When a player joins the ladder for the first time, s/he may challenge anyone on the ladder s/he wants to.
- Participation in the ladder is voluntary.
- After each meeting, the results of all ladder games will be entered into the LGC Ladder Generator web application (in design now). This application will take the results of all games, store them, and crunch the numbers to determine ELO for both players.
- The LGC website will display the ladder as a table generated from the data from the Ladder Generator.
- All games will be even games. If white chooses to give a handicap, the rating change for the two players will not be weighted in any way by the handicap stones. A win is a win.