Thoughts about Elo

[gurthbruins]

Distinguished? Extinguish that please - for Very Strong as TheClaudeQc recommends. Don't like apprentice master - a glaring contradiction. Rather: Strong Expert, then Master, then Strong Master. Above that, Grandmaster and Strong Grandmaster. All easy to remember and figure out.

[compte obelète]

Distinguished? Extinguish that please - for Very Strong as TheClaudeQc recommends. Don't like apprentice master - a glaring contradiction. Rather: Strong Expert, then Master, then Strong Master. Above that, Grandmaster and Strong Grandmaster. All easy to remember and figure out.

Yeah, also work for that

[Arne_Grimmbär]

@Sandoval -- buried somewhere deep in the settings is an option to play Arena games only against people of your league. I don't remember exactly where it is, though.

@Woodruff -- I appreciate the thought that went into this, but I think there may be a better solution available, one that has been suggested by other people before. Instead of limiting tables based on arbitrary titles and rankings, be able to limit tables based on an Elo range. So (for example) if I have an Elo of 185 I can set the table to be from 160 to 210, +/- 25 from my current position. This will allow a reasonable chance of winning but not open the table to people that will have low chances of defeating me or a low chance of winning. I don't have to include all Average and Good players, just the ones that will be reasonably close to my skill level.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I understood, the current matching system especially includes a weird effect when passing for example Elo 200: When Elo<200 you are matched with Elo 100 - 200 and when Elo>200 you are matched with Elo 200 - 300. This feels wrong, hence +1 for match making based on raw Elo-disance. From my perspective the names for the Elo-ranges could stay nontheless to help grapsing Elo values for beginners and people who do not care.