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Dip Pouch Tournament Rating
AuthorMatt Shields Last Update2019-10-09
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Each player begins with an initial rating of 40 before their first tournament. After each event, a player's final placement (e.g. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.) is converted to a percentile score.

The formula used is: (([Number of Players in the event]+0.5-[Placement])/[Number of Players in the event])*100

If the event was the World Championship, the tournament value is 20.
Otherwise, if the tournament has only one round, the tournament value is equal to the number of players in the event divided by 7, plus 2. If the event has more than one round, the tournament value is equal to the number of players in the event divided by 3.5, plus two. ( (#players/3.5)+2 ). However, the maximum tournament value for any non-world championship event is 15.

Events before 2001, with the exception of World Championships, have a tournament value of zero, meaning they have no effect on ratings. The theory is that results be based only on the last ten years of competitive play.

As an example of calculating new ratings, suppose a player enters an event with a rating of 55. Suppose also that they finish in 8th place out of 65 players. The player's percentile score is (65 + 0.5 - 8)/65 * 100 = 88.46. A 65 player event would have a tournament value of (65/3.5) +2 = 20.57. However, since the maximum tournament value is 15, that will be the value for this event. Therefore, this player's rating will move 15% of the distance from 55 to 88.46. The difference between 88.46 and 55 is 33.46. 15% of 33.46 is 5.019. Therefore, we add 5.019 points to this player's rating as a results of this event, meaning their rating increases from 55 to 60.019.


PrezCon 2008
Date February 22-24, 2008 Place Charlottesville
Number of players21 Number of rounds3 Number of boards6
Coeff 18.00 Coeff 2- Coeff 3-

RankFirstName LastNameLoc.Nat.Score
1Andy BARTALONE97.62
2Tom KOBRIN92.86
3Jeff LADD88.10
4Graham WOODRING83.33
5Claude WORRELL78.57
6Brian SHELDEN73.81
7David MALETSKY69.05
8Chris BARFIELD64.29
9Seth VAUGHN59.52
10Brian LEE54.76
11Brian ECTON50.00
12Carl WILLNER45.24
13Richard MALTZ40.48
14Ken GILLESPIE35.71
15Edward PREM30.95
16Steve EMMERT26.19
17Dan MATHIAS21.43
18Michael LIND16.67
19Joshua HUFFMAN11.90
19Thomas PASKO11.90
21Tim HOUSTON2.38

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