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admin · Site Admin Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 378

I don't know if many of you are following the debate on the ECF forums. They are having an argument over English grades Deflating. Personally I thought it was because we are better than them Twisted Evil

(Sorry Nigel)

2 suggestions have been put forward alond with a change to the ELO -> ECF formula.

"There are two solutions that spring immediately to my mind to ensure that this problem does not re-surface in future years after the grading fix is implemented.

1) First, and preferable, is to publish grades monthly. This means that every month our improving players go up in grade by a little bit, and so playing them later in the year would yield a more appropriate grading return than the current system does. However, I am sure that for logistical and other reasons this cant / wont happen.

2) The other soluton is, if any player shows a grade increase of more than 10 in the season, discard his existing grade and substitute it with the newly calculated one. You then plug this new grade back into the grading calculation and recalculate the seasons grades. This is, in my opinion, the practicable solution."

Can you imagine the chaos of #1. September you play in Grangmouth minors and get 4/5, this puts you over the limit for the minors at Glasgow and you play in the Majors, score 0/5, just in time for the minors in Oban...

For sheer entertainment value http://forum.bcfservices.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=336&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=1

Buddie · Bishop Joined: 31 Mar 2007 Posts: 20

Well, we have the "200-up" rule for rapidly improving players.
I think 10 BCF points as in option (2) means they are suggesting the equivalent of an "80-up" rule - that's not rapid improvement - that's a random flukey good year!