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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.


GenCon Indianapolis 2007
Date August 16-19, 2007 Place Indianapolis
Number of players41 Number of rounds5 Number of boards9
Coeff 113.71 Coeff 2- Coeff 3-

RankFirstName LastNameLoc.Nat.Score
1Thomas HAVER98.78
2Robert BAILEY96.34
3Bob KELLER93.90
4Jeff EIDE91.46
5Eric SANDERS89.02
6Anna MOORMAN86.59
7Ron ROBERTS84.15
8Nick ROHN81.71
9Scott KWIKER79.27
10Jeff DEFAUW76.83
11John SOPER74.39
12Georgia MILLER71.95
13Greg MAY69.51
14Aaron BRANTNER67.07
15Eric JOME64.63
15Michael KENNEDY64.63
17Grady HUGHES59.76
18Randy WHITE57.32
19Dan MCNEILL54.88
20Dan HODEL52.44
21Doug CAMPBELL50.00
21Spencer THAL50.00
23Kevin KIM45.12
24Robert HOLT42.68
25Eric SNYDER40.24
26Robert FIORIO37.80
27Jerry STEPEK35.37
28Rick STALEY32.93
29Zack THAL30.49
30Mike MORRISON28.05
31Kenneth LARIMER25.61
32Joel FUCE23.17
33Steve BLEEMER20.73
33Ray JASKOWSKI20.73
33Chris MERRIMEN20.73
33Kevin TAUCHER20.73
33Jason UNKNOWN20.73
38Joe MICKA8.54
38Chuck STEVENS8.54
40David KOPF3.66
40Scott SOMERVILLE3.66

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