Are tournies that play like a round a week over a 3 or 4 month period, all rated at the end or can you submit games for rating, say every month or whatever.
The recommendation is to submit games about once a month if the event runs longer than 6 weeks.
I don’t do that for my club’s round robins (generally running about two months). I submit them as one event.
The problem with that is bonus points. Especially true for lower-rated players for whom bonus points are easier to earn. (Not sure if that changed this month under the latest tweak.) Also performance norms, for those who care.
OTOH, if you are talking many months, say more than three, then not submitting the games for rating till the end of a mega-event could lead to stale ratings, or keep a player just on either end of a class boundary, etc.
There used to be an item in the printed rating supplements that double R-R events should not be submitted for rating until the end—and that was in the days before (the latest incarnation of) bonus points. The TD at one club I know ignored that, and no one complained.
Whatever.
It’s a trade-off, some players want to see the points from the games they played 6, 8 or 10 weeks ago rather than wait for possible bonus points for the entire event. (We also start to see complaints on Tuesdays about events ending on Saturday or Sunday but not yet submitted for rating.)
Mark Glickman and I have had some informal discussions about the possibility of bonus points based on performance over several events as part of a Glicko2-like rating system. Implementation might be challenging, but the concept is valid, to move someone whose rating is obviously too low based on performance over multiple events in a short time period up faster.
You don’t see complaints until Tuesday! That’s amazing. I get complaints as early as noon Monday for a Sunday event.
Alex Relyea
So far, I think the record is a complaint about an event that wasn’t rated less than 8 hours after it ended.
Hard to even remember that in 2004 the AVERAGE time it took an event to be rated was over 40 days, isn’t it?
Have you done studies of rating results based on color for each player? Sorry, this is a stupid question, I apologize.
Until 2012, we weren’t even gathering color information.
Now we get color information for some events, but only about 10% of them.
I think Mark Glickman has done some studies on results by color in FIDE rated events, as he’s requested color information from us for several events, most recently the 2012 US Open.