OGS has a new Glicko-2 based rating system!

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OGS has a new Glicko-2 based rating system!

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https://forums.online-go.com/t/ogs-has- ... stem/13058’

I’ll just quote the tl;dr here, pls visit the forum post linked above for in-depth information:
anoek wrote:tl;dr We're switching to a Glicko-2 rating system, which should be great for a lot of reasons. All of your past ranked games have been accounted for during this transition.
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This was helpful for me: Wikipedia - Glicko rating system
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We will see how good is the new OGS ranking system. One of the problem of OGS in the past was its ranking system, confusing 3 ranks, slow to adjust. Hopefully it will improve.
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