@FtXCommando said in (seemingly) illogical ratings changes:
Mu is the top of your individual rating bell
Mu is the middle of your bell curve 😉 alt text
@Reckless_Charger said in (seemingly) illogical ratings changes:
Does the rating system take account of how often you are playing when determining variation (sigma) I. E looking at frequency of games rather than just total? I would expect greater variation if you play irregularly (as you derust).
Technically if you were a good player but are de-rusting, as you win and lose games you are likely to get a larger sigma as your range of level of play will be increased as you get lucky and kill higher level opponents and make stupid mistakes against weaker opponents.
The system doesn't directly look at your frequency of games, but I expect there is some correlation between sigma and how long it's been since a player last played enough for there rating to hone in correctly.