Calculating rating...

Hi Tango

In theory ones rating can at any given moment tell how good you are. Everytime you win a match you add points to your rating, depending on how your opponent is rated. And naturally you lose points when you lose a game.

If you want to have a look at how the changes in your rating are being calculated, take a look at how it works in Denmark where I play:

First you need to find the difference in rating between two players (lets say 1500 vs. 1455 = 45 in difference). Then you find the row where it says 25-49 in the first column. This means, that if the higher rated player wins, he will get 6 points added to his rating and the lower rated player will get 4 points deducted (Look in the two columns below "expected result). If the lower rated player wins, he will get 12 points added to his rating and the higher rated gets 10 points deducted.

It's not more than 7-8 years ago, that the rating system was introduced in Denmark (Not completely true. In fact it was brought to Denmark from USA some 20 years ago). But it was not until around 2000 it was so developed it could replace our old system. It takes a lot of ressources to registrate all matches being played. It workes perfectly now in Denmark. You can see the results of all mathes played, on the internet. Sometimes the same day they are being played, sometimes the following day, depending on the how fast the responsible people work. And the rating is being updated every two weeks. This actually means a lot. On my team we are three players within a 20 point range, so we all give an extra 20% everytime we play, because everyone of us wants to be number one.

Hope it was something like this you were looking for tango. If not, I'm sorry to have wasted your time.

That's exactly the information I was after.  Thanks for taking the time to reply Takaaki and Metkar.  Much appreciated.

Well, in Australia we don't employ such as system, or atleast I'm not aware of any (quite sure though).  We just the usual ranking system where players gain ranking via wins in tournaments and in pennant, player most wins to decide leading player. 

Pretty boring.  Sorry I have nothing interesing to add Takaaki. 

Av a good one guys!

that's actually a mystery, i think.

the only thing i know for sure is when players win an ittf singles event, they get 40 bonus points on top of the points they earn by beating the other players.

if somebody out there actually knows the answer, pls. explain--i'm sure a lot of people would like to know.

 World Raking

In this January month it had changed the system of the counting of points in comparison the December of 2006. They have given everyone an extra 10000 points.