BBO Skill level

[dorfs]

BBO collects data about the results of every player for every hand.

BBOSkill can tell you what your skill level is based on these results

 

Why doesn't BBO dictate/control the skill level of each player and take the silliness out of the self selection thing? It is frustrating, useless and often unfair.

 

Any suggestions?

[Antrax]

One suggestion is to search the forums:

http://www.bridgebase.com/forums/topic/54526-bboskill/

http://www.bridgebase.com/forums/topic/56854-rating-system/

http://www.bridgebase.com/forums/topic/54138-player-level/

http://www.bridgebase.com/forums/topic/35525-rating-players/

[helene_t]

BBO writes a bit about this issue in the faq:

 

http://www.bridgebase.com/help/3/topics/faqs/text/intro.html#ratings

 

It has come up many times on this forum. A google on

 

site:bridgebase.com rating

 

gives 651 hits, most of which are threads about whether BBO should implement a rating system.

[TylerE]

BBO collects data about the results of every player for every hand.

BBOSkill can tell you what your skill level is based on these results

 

Why doesn't BBO dictate/control the skill level of each player and take the silliness out of the self selection thing? It is frustrating, useless and often unfair.

 

Any suggestions?

 

Because BBOSkill is fundamentally flawed, and there is plenty of historical evidence that any sort of assigned/visible player score is a complete cancer to a playing site. (See: OKBridge, death and irrelevancy of)

 

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