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I get a rating bump of 17 or 18 when I beat folks with similar rating in blitz. Not sure what’s going on. Used to be 7 or 8…
Apr 17, 2024
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3minutes wrote:
I get a rating bump of 17 or 18 when I beat folks with similar rating in blitz. Not sure what’s going on. Used to be 7 or 8…
You had a large gap in blitz play. The Glicko rating system uses a measure of rating uncertainty called the Rating Deviation (RD) value. If you have gaps in play, the RD increases as will the magnitude of rating changes after games. As you get more recent games, that value will drop as will the rating changes.
https://support.chess.com/en/articles/8566476-how-do-ratings-work-on-chess-com