2200 finaly acheived. But, how come I am only 1800 blitz?

@KevinKingslayer if you are so confident that you are 2200 bullet then why not play more games and show us an established 2200 bullet rating??

@KevinKingslayer said in #14:
> I notice that your rating is much lower then mine. Thus all of your observations about my mettle lack all respect from me.
Huh? These observations were made ages ago, I only told you about them. If you clicked on that link, you would have known that. And those were set in the system of Glicko 2 which is the one you are using. Otherwise when you lose or win a match why does your rating change so much. If you don't want to click the link, don't expect to understand how glicko2 works.

@Eddyj98 said in #25:
>@KevinKingslayer Come I challenge you with my 1700, let's see how you fare against someone 500 points below you
So if I win a certain amount (of a pre-agreed upon amount) you will send me BTC?
How about best of 10 games for crypto?

You think anyone is that stupid? Honestly, it is sad that you are whining over such a stupid subject. Please moderators, close this topic so this guy who is above 20 cannot say anything else that makes me crack up over how stupid it is. Thank you.

@KevinKingslayer
Generally, blitz rating is lower than any other time control.
Plus, as is case here, there is so much difference due to fact that your Bullet rating is provisional and not fixed.

@KevinKingslayer If you find a 2700 player you could lose -1 -1 -1 - 1 and end the provisional rating, but keep your 2200.

Job done.

@RickRenegade said in #34:
> @KevinKingslayer If you find a 2700 player you could lose -1 -1 -1 - 1 and end the provisional rating, but keep your 2200.
>
> Job done.
Nop. To lose provisional you have to get a lower rd. If you play players 500 points higher you will only lose a little rd. If you play against -200 to +200 opponents regularly your rd should be > 60. My rd hovers around 50 (classical) and cannot get much lower. The minimum is 45 here. But seriously, even if the op did that, they might lose the provisional according to lichess but they would still have a highly unstable rating. The op is probably trolling lol.

@SD_2709

I thought RD only affected if you go onto ranking leader board or not. Pretty sure I have always got rid of my '?s' after about 12 games. Maybe I always hit the RD by mistake. But some of my ratings have high RDs and I have no ?s so don't know what's going on there?

@RickRenegade said in #36:
> @SD_2709
>
> I thought RD only affected if you go onto ranking leader board or not. Pretty sure I have always got rid of my '?s' after about 12 games. Maybe I always hit the RD by mistake. But some of my ratings have high RDs and I have no ?s so don't know what's going on there?
Rd determines your rating accuracy. High rd means your rating might be wrong while low rd means your rating is accurate. If you have lower than 110 rd your rating is accurate enough to get rid of the ?. If you are lower than 75 rd then your rating is accurate enough to get a ranking (except variants). So if you have less than 110 rd then you won't have ? but it might still be somewhat high.

Edit: I forgot to mention a couple things.
1. Rd increases over time so maybe you played a lot of rapid or blitz or something and then. you didn't play it for months then your rd will also increase.
2. Rd determines how much rating you gain/lose after win/loss too. With high rd a win might give you from +50 to +800 points or so (I think) while with low rd you won't gain so many points over each win. If you have high rd a loss will cost you many points but with a low rd it won't. Pretty much, the rd is an extremely important factor in glicko2. Without rd, your rating is meaningless.

In classic, you have 179 games or so, so you don't have a ?. Your rd is in the 100's. It was probably 50 at some point but then you stopped playing classical. So your rd increased. The same for my ultra. It was at rd 45 at one point but I quit those because I don't enjoy them and now my rd is boosting up. This is also an example. If you have a high rd then your rating is irrelevant. After a few games you could be rated like a gm but with high rd it doesn't mean your level is at gm. If you have a gm level rating with low rd, it means you are actually at grandmaster levels. This is a major reason why glicko2 is so accurate.

it's literally 7 games. 7 games doesn't define your real rating

@SD_2709 My Classical RD is 109 so it under 110 to get off provisional then? Is that what you mean?
So if it was 111 then I would have '?' forever? ....

@RickRenegade said in #39:
> @SD_2709 My Classical RD is 109 so it under 110 to get off provisional then? Is that what you mean?
> So if it was 111 then I would have '?' forever? ....
No. If you played a few more classical games it would drop below 110 again and you would lose the ?.