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Edmig2

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I now have assessed 3.51 pts, yet my ranking still shows 2 1/2. It also indicates that I need 1.49 pts to advance to next level 3.Is BBO assessment tool broken?

 

The BBO site indicates the progression starts at level 1 then advances to level 5; but why do so many players have ratings at level 3 and level 4?

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The BBO site indicates the progression starts at level 1 then advances to level 5; but why do so many players have ratings at level 3 and level 4?

I'm not sure what you're referring to - the link above doesn't say anything about 5 levels; it shows levels ranging from 2 (1+ points) to infinity (eg 22 is 2200 points). Are you talking about something else?

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The BBO site indicates the progression starts at level 1 then advances to level 5; but why do so many players have ratings at level 3 and level 4?

 

The rankings increase as you acquire more masterpoints - these can be from anywhere and are converted to BBO points at whatever the conversion factor is.

The reason that you see so many people with a rank of 1-4 is because the ranking scale increases linearly but the number of points need to go up a level is on a log scale.

So you need only 1+ points to get a rank of 2 20+ points to get a '4' and 500+ points to get a '9'.

This means that most players are clustered around the 2-5 rank unless they are A) really excellent and win a lot of daylong tourneys or B) very rich or C) devious.

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