use lower virtual rating for first game pairing #16385
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Ideally, new players would score 0.5 on their first game, but it looks like we pair them too high: | Time control | Avg score | Elo | | ---------------| --------- | --- | | Ultra bullet | 0.25 | -96 | | Bullet | 0.25 | -96 | | Blitz | 0.34 | -59 | | Rapid | 0.37 | -47 | | Classical | 0.37 | -47 | | Correspondence | 0.39 | -40 | Changing the initial rating would change the rating distribution over time, requiring to lower the rating again and so on. Instead, use a virtual rating for the first pairing, just like we already use virtual offsets from a normal distribution.
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Ideally, new players would score 0.5 on their first game, but it looks
like we pair them too high:
Changing the initial rating would change the rating distribution over
time, requiring to lower the rating again and so on.
Instead, use a virtual rating for the first pairing, just like we
already use virtual offsets from a normal distribution.