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Rating Paranoia
Path: BadHabits · Prev: LeavingYourHandOnTheMouse · Next: CompareGoToChess This can only be described as an illness. It comes about by logging into your Go servers every day to see how you ranking has changed from day to day or even worse from game to game. Best cure: Not to play online for a spell. Confused: Another cure is to play games against under-rated people. This way, the rank drops again a little and loses some of its shine. At least in my case, it cured me of chasing rank. Better be a under-rated 20 kyu than a fraud 10 kyu. (Sebastian:) How do you know someone is underrated? Besides, if they subsequently move to their correct rating, then your rating goes up, even if you don't play online for a spell! Dolgan: Yesterday I twice played a 19k? on KGS who beat me up like it was my first game. Later I discovered he had only one lost game while about 30 won games. Since most of his games were free his rank wonŽt move and heŽll stay underrated. I believe you can detect underrated people if their win/loss ratio is very high This illness is also related to Equating Go skill with intelligence ;) -- Tim Brent Path: BadHabits · Prev: LeavingYourHandOnTheMouse · Next: CompareGoToChess This is a copy of the living page "Rating Paranoia" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |