RFC: increase initial Glicko deviation #7309
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As to figure out the rating of a new player quicker. The intended result is for noobs to lose fewer games before they start encountering relevant opponents. for #7273 Another thing to consider is hiding ratings until a given number of games has been played, so people don't get emotionally attached to their meaningless provisional rating.
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Should also change I tried to find justifications for the default value:
Doing the optimization on 5 million Lichess game results (using the technique from #6818 (comment)) yields:
This is without touching volatility. |
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Looks like the volatility change goes also in the right direction. Just a few samples:
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* master: scalafmt 2.7.1 dgt play style tweaks rewrite dgt play help zone Ready to start testing on Lichess.dev Finish porting to chessops and removed all other dependencies rm outdated nginx docs rm outdated iptables doc (no longer using extra ports) rm outdated manifest doc that now has its own route update some old links Change timeout draw separator New Crowdin updates (#7307) Migration from axios to fetch almost done
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As to figure out the rating of a new player quicker.
The intended result is for noobs to lose fewer games
before they start encountering relevant opponents.
for #7273
Another thing to consider is hiding ratings
until a given number of games has been played,
so people don't get emotionally attached to
their meaningless provisional rating.