Bonus Points?

[CoachBob]

@sloan

Excellent! Now, the question is: is this “too many”? or, “unexpected”? Is this a problem that needs to be addressed? How many more such cases will there be when we lower the bonus point threshold?

Following up on Mr. Aigner’s post, I suppose a reasonable next question might be: how many of these 52 players quit chess in disgust because their parents thought they were “getting worse over time”?

And after that…if this is a problem, how do we fix it? (without breaking something else…)

Those with answers (and other questions) are invited to the Ratings Workshop in Dallas.

I recall that Bill Goichberg asked the Ratings Committee to study the possibility of increasing K for higher rated players. Has the Committee had time to study this and will it be a topic for discussion at the Ratings Workshop?

[Mulfish]

@sloan

@nolan

Of the 1505 players with established ratings who had a 200 or more point gain in the 18 months from 6/1/2006 through 12/31/2007, it looks like 52 of them subsequently gave back at least 200 points within six months. That’s 3.45%.

Excellent! Now, the question is: is this “too many”? or, “unexpected”? Is this a problem that needs to be addressed? How many more such cases will there be when we lower the bonus point threshold?

Following up on Mr. Aigner’s post, I suppose a reasonable next question might be: how many of these 52 players quit chess in disgust because their parents thought they were “getting worse over time”?

And after that…if this is a problem, how do we fix it? (without breaking something else…)

Those with answers (and other questions) are invited to the Ratings Workshop in Dallas.

The question in the second paragraph presumes that the 52 players were scholastic players. Is that a valid assumption?

[nolan]

Of those 52 players, 45 are 12 or younger, 4 are between 13 and 18, 2 are between 35 and 50 and 1 is over 70.