I have made a proposal that the USCF rate the Olympiads. One purpose
of this is to bring very active top level players into the USCF rating
system and to encourage them to come here to compete.

My question is how much time and effort would be required to do this.

Assuming that 120 men's teams of 4 contest the Olympiad and each team
plays 14 rounds, that means that there will be 3360 men's games to be
rated.

Assuming that 50 women's teams of 3 contest the Olympiad and each team
plays 14 rounds, that makes 1050 women's games to be rated.

How difficult would it be in terms of time and effort to rate those
4410 games?

Sam Sloan

On 24 Feb 2004 17:53:02 GMT, (Mike Nolan) wrote:

Here's some data on events by the number of rated games, ignoring matches
and round robin events:

Events Tot Games

Under 25 games 2404 36,257
25-49 games 1882 66,069
50-99 games 1263 88,061
100-199 games 687 94,629
200-299 games 273 67,244
300-399 games 130 44,954
400-499 games 74 33,326
500-599 games 39 21,495
600-699 games 26 16,661
700-799 games 27 20,092
800-899 games 4 3,419
900-999 games 5 4,594
1000-1250 games 23 25,340
1250-1500 games 8 10,694
1500-1999 games 12 21,349
Over 2000 games 18 65,446
--
Mike Nolan

There are still events coming in for 2003, but here's a statistical
summary of the ones that have been rated through February 18th:

220 matches

1943 round robin events
1631 involving 4 or fewer players
262 involving 5-8 players
50 involving more than 8 players

13763 swiss sections
4887 involving fewer than 10 players
4239 involving 10-19 players
2153 involving 20-29 players
966 involving 30-39 players
530 involving 40-49 players
319 involving 50-59 players
170 involving 60-69 players
122 involving 70-79 players
71 involving 80-89 players
59 involving 90-99 players
77 involving 100-124 players
60 involving 125-149 players
48 involving 150-199 players
48 involving 200-299 players
13 involving 300-499 players
1 involving 500 or more players

Combining sections on the above (ie, ignoring RR's and matches),
there were 6867 events rated
1347 involving fewer than 10 players
2379 involving 11-24 players
1437 involving 25-49 players
765 involving 50-99 players
166 involving 100-124 players
103 involving 125-149 players
126 involving 150-199 players
104 involving 200-299 players
59 involving 300-499 players
37 involving 500 or more players
--
Mike Nolan

Here's the number of regular rated games by year since
1992:

Total Non-Scholastic

1992 | 324747 225722
1993 | 339388 234223
1994 | 377014 248344
1995 | 410365 257421
1996 | 425999 257655
1997 | 427946 249637
1998 | 425429 234672
1999 | 418709 206308
2000 | 420318 193787
2001 | 437456 182153
2002 | 485865 219596
2003 | 489206 236380

The 'scholastic tournament' flag isn't completely reliable (in part
because the current reporting format doesn't distinguish between
scholastic and non-scholastic events at the section level), but it
probably does give some indication as to the number of games in adult
sections, or at least the trend.

I should probably have restricted the earlier numbers to regular
events as well, otherwise they are by any dual-rated sections. (I
haven't found a good way yet to reliably determine if a section is
dual-rated.)
--
Mike Nolan

"Sam Sloan" wrote in message
...

How difficult would it be in terms of time and effort to rate those
4410 games?

We'll be happy to do it for $882.

StanB