[nige1]

There are arguments for and against rating systems; Fred, however, definitely appears not to want an official rating system on his site; and thatwould seem to be the end of the matter....

.....But.....

inquiry tells us that BBO maintains a sophisticated rating system unofficially. And inquiry wrote that he will consider divulging your own rating on request.

Hence there seem to be two avenues open that would satisfy most people and embarrass nobody...

• 1. Enable the option to insert rating field(s) into your profile that are visible only to you. I reckon this would be of interest and use to most BBO members who would appreciate objective feed-bake on their current form.
  
• 2. If you enjoy competition then join a private club within BBO, which implements a rating system confined to its members-only tournaments. Does anybody know of such a club with free membership?

[DrTodd13]

BBO does not maintain a ratings system. BBO hand records are available for download and it is an external site that downloads these records and can compute a rating.

If I recall correctly, the OKB lehman system stated that its intent was to be used to determine if you were improving or not and was not to be used for comparison between players. Why did they make it publicly visible then? I don't know but the pressure to do so would be immense. There are two needs here. Am I getting better and how do I find people I want to play with. These are two different problems with potentially two different solutions. An objective ratings system that is only viewable by the person involved could let people know if they are getting better or worse. You could even give each person their own unique multiplication factor. Compute someone's rating from 0 to 100 and then multiply by their multiplication factor. People wouldn't know their own multiplication factor and so these ratings would only be useful for tracking your own progress but would be truly useless for comparison against other players.

If any system for finding partners is going to work and keep a civil environment, it is going to be a subjective "rate other people" (reputation-based) system. We don't know how this would work in practice because no one has tried it.

[Al_U_Card]

nige1, on Jul 2 2007, 07:23 AM, said:

Hence there seem to be two avenues open that would satisfy most people and embarrass nobody...

• 1. Enable the option to insert rating field(s) into your profile that are visible only to you.  I reckon this would be of interest and use to most BBO members who would appreciate objective feed-bake on their current form.
  
  
• 2.  If you enjoy competition then join a private club within BBO, which implements a rating system confined to its members-only tournaments. Does anybody know of such a club with free membership?

I like and support this idea (it would save me a few keystrokes) and players could "publish" it on their profile (an option) should they so desire. I am referring to the myhands numbers for the last month of course.

[jtfanclub]

jtfanclub, on Jul 10 2004, 09:57 PM, said:

Pardon me for talking out of my butt here....

Why not have an Advanced private club?

So, on my fourth anniversary of posting here, the thread I first posted on is *still going*.

I don't know what it means, but it must mean something.

[Al_U_Card]

If you advance your privates.....you may get them chopped off....