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Game Courier Ratings. Calculates ratings for players from Game Courier logs. Experimental.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]When two players play only one game together, GCR works with the assumption that the results are more due to chance than to skill. That is why I think a 3000 rated player who loses to a 1500 rated player in their only game together should lose fewer points than another 1500 rated player would. Furthermore, since 1500 is everyone's initial rating, whereas a 3000 rating must be earned, it is assumed that the 3000 rating is more reliable than the 1500 rating, and the main change in rating should be to bring the 1500 rated player up in rating. As things work right now, the 1500 rated player who beat a 3000 rated player would rise to a rating of 2250.