Has anyone talked about the following? I searched the forums, but did not find anything.
Have 3 Ratings.
Regular
Quick - For games less than 60 min. (30 min. regular games don’t make sense)
Online - It does not make sense to be able to play quick rated games online with so much opportunty for abuse.
There have been several discussions on the subject, but no clear consensus has emerged from them.
Taking games faster than Game/60 out of the regular rating pool would result in most games rated by the USCF in the past 18 months being quick rated only, since the statistics on regular, dual and quick games since then are as follows:
system | games
-------+--------
D | 434763
Q | 63175
R | 292969
Here’s another way to break it down, this one is by membership type:
plr_memtp | reg | dual | quick
----------+--------+--------+-------
Sr | 11202 | 3931 | 1715
Yth | 51429 | 61626 | 12810
Life1 | 11398 | 3758 | 2350
Ec Ad | 1008 | 626 | 232
Ec Sch | 34536 | 146255 | 6526
JTP | 283 | 3353 | 40
Adult | 104679 | 47102 | 25674
Sus | 1211 | 384 | 291
Sch | 56147 | 144737 | 9199
Trial | 876 | 553 | 274
Fam | 8347 | 15776 | 2083
NonMem | 1734 | 2724 | 149
Life 2 | 9658 | 2851 | 1948
Here’s the breakdown of players showing the number of unique USCF IDs by membership type in regular, dual and quick rated events:
plr_memtp | reg | dual | quick
----------+-------+-------+-------
Sr | 895 | 389 | 208
Yth | 7079 | 9395 | 1768
Life1 | 836 | 377 | 199
Ec Ad | 171 | 99 | 42
Ec Sch | 7411 | 20373 | 1287
JTP | 130 | 1087 | 22
Adlt | 11203 | 6321 | 2933
Sus | 122 | 66 | 40
Sch | 9048 | 19873 | 1511
Trial | 172 | 116 | 45
Fam | 1149 | 1902 | 299
NonMem | 537 | 1053 | 44
Life2 | 818 | 376 | 216
What is the difference between “Life 1” and “Life 2” memberships?
Life 1, also sometimes called ‘old life’ are life memberships that were created before (around) 1984.
Life 2 are those created since 1984.
Thanks.
That makes me a Life 2 member. (Since '01)
And that also explains the “L” vs “Z” I’ve seen on various mailing labels!