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Game Courier Ratings. Calculates ratings for players from Game Courier logs. Experimental.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Feb 17, 2006 12:41 AM UTC:

By necessity, any rating system is going to have a degree of arbitrariness
to it, for some unit of measurement must be used, and there is no hard and
fast reason for preferring one over another. But that is no reason at all
against any particular method. As for the 400 figure, that is at least
rooted in tradition. This same figure is used by the Elo method, which has
already established itself as the most popular rating method.

As for including computer opponents, you are free to play games in which
you enter the moves made by a computer. If you do that, it would be best
to create a separate userid for the computer opponent. But Game Courier
does not provide any computer opponents, and I don't consider their
inclusion in the ratings important.

Finally, the filters let you filter out games that are not officially
rated. So it's a moot point whether the calculations factor in unrated
games. They factor them in only if you choose not to filter them out.