On Nov 19, 8:50 am, David Richerby
wrote:
J.D. Walker wrote:
Taylor Kingston wrote:
[Rating floors are aimed against sandbagging.]

Thanks for the explanation of the cause of the ratings floors.
Given this, I still maintain that it leads to a corruption of the
rating system.

If preventing sandbagging was the only reason for rating floors, it
would have been much better to just say that nobody can win a class
prize in a class more than 200 below their highest ever rating, or
something similar.

Do not forget that there are some players who, from
day one, were advised to never allow their OTB rating
to get very high, lest they later be unable to win money.

And of course there are those who cross borders,
with the sole intention of either winning lots of class
prize money, or else grooming their ratings to enable
future reaping of harvests.

In my area, a few of the players I have known for
many years are sitting on their floors, apparently on
account of a gradual deflation process. Years ago,
many of these same players were hitting new all-time
highs, apparently as the result of ratings inflation.

It seems to me that inflation, while mathematically a
bad thing, was helpful in promoting tournament
participation, while deflation should yield the opposite
effect.

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