Usatt Rating (Does this rating look correct)

taczkid wrote: ALL!!!!!! NOT SURE WHAT USATT IS DOING... ANYMORE! After my initial question, my rating went from 2200 to 2311 yesterday, and today it shows 2162. What is crazy is that ratings of all USATT players (I think) were CHANGED!!!!! mostly Changed for lower ratings!!!   I am really annoyed by all of this and really pissed of as well, I am sure a lot of players will be! At this point I have no idea anymore what to do... Should we start some petition or can someone on this Forum reach out to USATT and simply ask them WTF is going on? I am tired of sending out emails, arguing, proving points etc.   I THINK IT IS JUST SOOO UNFAIR TO ALL OF THE PLAYERS, WHAT THEY DOING!!! (Especially since they probably found some coding mistake and instead of fixing it for going forward they F..D Up everyone's ratings!!!

"I survived the 2019 Rating Purge" t-shirts can't be far behind.

USATT is aware of the problem and is working on it. When I awoke this morning I saw all the online postings and verified that the ratings were apparently messed up. I emailed USATT headquarters but they already knew of the problem. 

heavyspin wrote:

when there is a bug, a notice should be posted on the site

tom wrote: when there is a bug, a notice should be posted on the site

If it is a bug, the code should not have been released at all.

Any change should have gone through a quality control process before release.

qpskfec wrote: tom wrote: when there is a bug, a notice should be posted on the site If it is a bug, the code should not have been released at all. Any change should have gone through a quality control process before release.

Edited by Pushblocker - Yesterday at 1:23pm

jfolsen wrote: Pushblocker wrote: qpskfec wrote: tom wrote: when there is a bug, a notice should be posted on the site If it is a bug, the code should not have been released at all. Any change should have gone through a quality control process before release. What happened there is what we call "Unit Testing in Production" in the IT world... In Software engineering, you are suppose to unit test your changes with a small set of sample data in non production environment and once it is tested, you execute the process in production... However, it appears that they re-processed all tournaments since the beginning of the new ratings data format without unit testing the fix first..   We call it PILOT, Production In Lieu Of Testing.

Pushblocker wrote: jfolsen wrote: Pushblocker wrote: qpskfec wrote: tom wrote: when there is a bug, a notice should be posted on the site If it is a bug, the code should not have been released at all. Any change should have gone through a quality control process before release. What happened there is what we call "Unit Testing in Production" in the IT world... In Software engineering, you are suppose to unit test your changes with a small set of sample data in non production environment and once it is tested, you execute the process in production... However, it appears that they re-processed all tournaments since the beginning of the new ratings data format without unit testing the fix first..   We call it PILOT, Production In Lieu Of Testing. Looks like the PILOT crashed

Unfortunately, the test the new code on production problem has gotten worse in recent years all over the sw industry.

It again points to the lack of a well defined process by usatt and its third party sw vendor. Usatt looks like some mickey mouse operation when entirely avoidable issues like this pop up.

This kind of thing definitely should be brought to the attention of the board of directors as well as in the search for a new CEO. Unless a proper process is implemented by top management, this will happen again.

I like the way they are handling things and I hope they will continue.  This way I can log in each week filled with the childlike excitement of finding out what USATT has wrapped inside that pretty ratings package under the tree.  And best of all I don't have to spend all that money on entry fees, hotels, and gasoline just to get a new rating.

Darn, now I can't sandbag play the U1500 event at the Cary Cup!

Pushblocker wrote: mycuzinvinny wrote: Darn, now I can't sandbag play the U1500 event at the Cary Cup! I wish that I could make the Cary Cup this year but I'll be in Europe at the day of the tournament. Will probably play some TT there while I'm there but probably no tournaments.

Edited by mentortt - Yesterday at 2:44pm

tom wrote: mentortt wrote: Scores have been reverted back. Cheers! glad you are happy for the revert.  But you are aware that it could change (without further competition)  any minute.

Pushblocker wrote: mentortt wrote: Cary Cup has already full for main giant round robin with 1.5 months away. Not sure if they have special invitations available.  It is well maintained tournament. Pushblocker wrote: mycuzinvinny wrote: Darn, now I can't sandbag play the U1500 event at the Cary Cup! I wish that I could make the Cary Cup this year but I'll be in Europe at the day of the tournament. Will probably play some TT there while I'm there but probably no tournaments. I didn't sign up because I was planning a trip to Europe that week.. I finally bought the tickets for the family and I know 100% that I will be out of town that weekend.

mycuzinvinny wrote: Yep, maxed out at 144 entries, I don't think there are open invitations out.  There is a significant amount of 1700-2100 entries, but I don't see as many 2400+ this year as before.

Edited by mentortt - 12 hours 21 minutes ago at 10:12am