USCF Rating Floors-From USCF Rating

[Jion_Wansu]

I didn’t want to make a new thread. I am having trouble understanding rating floors. According to the USCF, one has the potential to jump several hundred rating points off of 1 tournament:

A player’s rating oor can also change if he or she wins a large cash prize. If a player wins
over $2,000 in an under-2000 context, the rating oor is set at the rst 100-point level (up to
2000) which would make the player no longer eligible for that section or prize. For example,
if a player wins $2,000 in an under-1800 section of a tournament, then the player’s rating
oor would be 1800. Floors based on cash prizes can be at any 100-point level, not just the
ones above based on peak rating.

In other words, if a 1300 player wins $2,000 or more in an 1800 section then, regardless of win/loss record, that player jumps from 1300 to 1800 automatically and that becomes his/her rating floor. Am I seeing this correctly?!?

[wilecoyote]

@Jion_Wansu

I didn’t want to make a new thread. I am having trouble understanding rating floors. According to the USCF, one has the potential to jump several hundred rating points off of 1 tournament:

A player’s rating oor can also change if he or she wins a large cash prize. If a player wins
over $2,000 in an under-2000 context, the rating oor is set at the rst 100-point level (up to
2000) which would make the player no longer eligible for that section or prize. For example,
if a player wins $2,000 in an under-1800 section of a tournament, then the player’s rating
oor would be 1800. Floors based on cash prizes can be at any 100-point level, not just the
ones above based on peak rating.

In other words, if a 1300 player wins $2,000 or more in an 1800 section then, regardless of win/loss record, that player jumps from 1300 to 1800 automatically and that becomes his/her rating floor. Am I seeing this correctly?!?

Yes.

[Allen]

And then one can petition to have a rating floor reduced if the player feels it no longer reflects the player’s strength. Of course doing that right after the floor is set would be problematic.