Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-30967537-20181001114433/@comment-28169398-20181005210447

Mugwumps wrote: I'm really not sure what you are trying to get at, Amrosa. There is nothing in there about random deductions of points when not racing. Nor does it say 'if we suck at matching you will get zero points for a win'. In fact, it says, "''Beating players will increase your rating, while losing will decrease it." So, according to the manual, if you win, you should ''get at least some points. "If you beat higher rated players, your own rating will increase greatly; conversely, if you lose to a lower rated player, you rating will greatly decrease."

And if you are a high rate player and you are racing people with 200-300 points you are going to get next to nothing.

The scoring system is based on the Elo Rating system which is the rating system used in chess.

If Garry Kasparov plays a kid on a high school chess team and crushes them, no surprise there it has no affect on either of their ratings.

If Garry Kasparov beats Magnus Carlsen, then his rating will go up a bit and Carlsens will go down a bit, but they are bot Grand Masters and the points swap in their ranking won't be that significant.

If Garry Kasparov completely tanks against the worst player on the high school team, he is going to take a substantial hit to their ranking.

Matchmaking comes in to try and pair like with like, but given the instant nature of the matching in OMP, speed of matching is prioritized over a perfectly balanced race.