SE4 Rating System

[Slynky]

Originally posted by Baron Grazic:
Query -
I won 1 game with both of us have a rating of 1000 - I earn 16 points, the most you can win/lose in any game.
I loose a game against Primative who had a higher rating than me, and lose 16 points.
Your maths equation stumps me, or I'd do it myself but I thought that because I lost a match to a higher rated player, I would lose less then 16 points.
I am assuming that it was because our Ratings were still close enough to gain/lose the max of 16 points, but I just want to confirm it with you Slynky.
Thanks.

I'll check it out. But, I would suspect that's the explanation. I don't know what the "span" (or difference) can be before the losing player gets 15 instead of 16.

To clarify something else, I think the max a rating can change is 32 points, not 16. Most of them are around 16 (or 15 and 17) at the moment because most of the scores are still around 1,000. But if someone rated 100 beat someone rated 2,000, there would surely be a 32 point addition and subtraction.