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[guerringuerrin]

@kheeva @Thalatta
Implementing some kind of rating decay or reset seems quite appropriate to me. There are players who have had the same rating without playing a single 1v1 rated game for many years . Perhaps instead of getting tangled up in intricate calculations, “seasons” could be implemented. Basically, with each new release, all ratings would be reset and everyone would start over. It’s a fairly common mechanism. 

[Thalatta]

9 minutes ago, guerringuerrin said:

@kheeva @Thalatta
Implementing some kind of rating decay or reset seems quite appropriate to me. There are players who have had the same rating without playing a single 1v1 rated game for many years . Perhaps instead of getting tangled up in intricate calculations, “seasons” could be implemented. Basically, with each new release, all ratings would be reset and everyone would start over. It’s a fairly common mechanism. 

If you say it's common, then so be it, but from other situations I've seen that individual ratings take some time to stabilise, that would be my only concern... that for most of the "season" ratings would be quite inaccurate. My proposal (a mix of the new FIFA ranking system with a softened version of the old one, which had a harsh decay) would soften that reset.

EDIT: Another reason I see decay as necessary is that players that have been inactive for too long would have been playing a somewhat different game… this is not as constant as chess, and even in chess there is an “inactive” category, where for example Kasparov is placed (still being ranked 2nd overall).

Edited 1 hour ago by Thalatta