I'd like to repropose my idea for a perl golf rating that is fairer to people who rarely play.
All players have a certain rating before a tournament. When a tournament is done and, say, the winner had A strokes and you have B strokes, you get: score = A*100/B (So the winner gets 100, if you needed twice as many strokes, you get 50 etc) (tie-breaker can be counted or not. it won't have much influence) We calculate a moving average: new_rating = (old_rating*9+score)/10 If you don't play: new_rating = old_rating-0.5 (so not playing doesn't cost you much, but there is motivation to play) If you are a judge: new_rating = old_rating (maybe we should give judges a very small gain to get more judges :-) ) Everybody starts at 70
