[Bska] Suggested BSkA rating system

[John McLeod]

Several players have expressed interest in having a system that assigns 
to each player a rating based on their performance in BSkA Synchron Skat 
tournaments.

My suggestion for such a system has now been published on the BSkA web 
site. It assigns to everyone who has played in one or more BSkA Synchron 
tournaments a rating in the range 0 to 100. New players start at 20, and 
players who consistently achieve above average results will eventually 
have ratings of 50 or more.

The document http://www.weddslist.com/skat/rating/ explains in detail 
what the proposed system tries to achieve and how it works. There is 
also a chart http://www.weddslist.com/skat/rating/rating.gif showing the 
movement of some players' actual ratings since the start of 2004 using 
this system. A spreadsheet containing the calculation of all players' 
ratings since we began holding Synchron Skat tournaments in 2001 is 
available at http://www.weddslist.com/skat/rating/rating.xls

Any comments would be welcome.
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John McLeod                      For information on card games visit
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