Tim,
Thank you. I think that works to confirm that Anthony Booth 12400817 should have been entered in with a floor of 1900 effective 2012-01-01, but as Mike notes this will have to wait until membership corrections are up and running in MUIR, followed by a rerate.
Richard,
In the meantime TDs could rely on 28E, 28E1, 28E2 and 28E3 to assign a rating of 1900 to this player when they enter an event.
Good Chess,
Tim
Yes; I think the original concern was more for all the Arizonans who farmed rating points off of the 1900 floor rather then the 1800 one.
Some years ago, the EB established a rule that a player who is on their floor and plays in a match can be treated as having made a request to have their floor lowered by 100 points. It isn’t used very frequently.
It’s been a long time since I looked at the paper supplements. Did *21 indicate a floor of 2100 or did it indicate a provisional rating based on 21 games. If it was provisional then the first established rating could have been somewhere in the 2000-2099 range, which would have given a 1900 floor at that time (change the last two digits to zero and subtract 100). Later that would have been changed to 1800 (when the formula became change the last two digits to zero and subtract 200).
So if the * indicates provisional it may very well be that 1800 is the correct floor.
I think *21 meant an established rating with a peak rating of 2100-2199.
I’m not sure what the ones like *d3 ones meant anymore, though I think Tom Doan posted something about them a year or two ago. Something to do with title earned and norms towards the next title in the old norms system, which was poorly designed, I think.
Probably not based off games considering the 1983 rating supp in Jan chess life ‘84 shows a 2068
Keep in mind that even in the 80’s a player’s peak rating might not ever show up in a ratings supplement. My peak rating was 1651 (in 1987, I think), but I think my peak published rating was more like 1588 because I had one great tournament where I peaked and then gave a lot of points back a couple of weeks later.
Jeff,
I believe provisional ratings had a / in the old days; i.e. /1213 is a provisional rating of 1213.
I checked my rating in that same supplement and I had a *17. That indicates a floor. In those days I recall (but have no solid evidence) that once a player passed over a 00 barrier, then that barrier was the new floor for that individual. So, if a player went over 1500 but below 1600 then their floor was 1500 or *15.
Good Chess,
Tim
Yes, in general whenever provisional ratings are shown, the game count should appear after a /
There’s an open ticket to fix some places where this is not yet happening on MUIR.
The Gold Master files should have the game count in the R_NRM_DAT and Q_NRM_DAT fields (because the ratings field is a numeric type), the tab files should have them in the ratings field.