Ratings information for tournament organisers

Receiving entries

Provisional ratings: If the player has fewer than 50 rated games, the number of games is indicated. Their rating is still uncertain. You are entitled to use your judgement together with the indicated rating to assign them to a section.

Mouldy players: If the player hasn't played in the last five years, we may have them listed here, but the date of last play is indicated e.g. "from 20030304". Note that players who have not played for 10 years will be assigned a new rating, and adjusted for number of games by NRO. Some of the players from many years ago might not even be in the list of suggestions. See below.

Unfound: If you cannot find a player, it may be:

1. a misspelt name e.g. sometimes Margaret may be Meg or Peg.
2. a player from long ago. The National Ratings Officer may be able to help.
3. a player who has changed their name eg by marriage. Please let the NRO know.
4. a genuine new player. We sometimes use the word "novice" in this case, but in fact they may have experience from overseas, or even from local internet based play. It is up to you to make enquiries in order to place them in an appropriate section. The rating system should make a good estimate of rating, no matter what section they are placed in, but it is better for the player, the other competitors and the rating system if they are placed in a section where they will neither be trounced nor far too good.

Get the ratings data file.

While the tournament is in progress you should check that names are correctly spelt. At the end of the tournament you should clean up any markers like @12 or @R or (N) that you may have included. The AUPAIR program has a menu item to Clean. Open the RatCooker program It will guide you to find where you stored the TOU file on the tournament laptop (hint: use an easily findable working directory for your laptop work directory) and it will then run the ratings, and display them. Please check whether players flagged as being novices are really novices and not merely a misspelling.

If you don't use the PratCooker program you should at least send the TOU fileto National Rating Officer nro@scrabble.org.au.

When you get home

If you ran the PratCooker program, there will be a file e.g. 09scam.txt which can be opened with eg NotePad. It looks something like this:

Results and ratings: 31.05.2009 Scamander Div 2 Sun
DIVISION 2
       W     M                       Old  Chg  New
  1    5  +283 Maureen Harris        927  +21  948
  2    5  +270 Blitz Greig           990  +17 1007
  3    5  +268 Kate Larby            756  +47  803
  4    5  +134 Dawn Boyle            909  +24  933
  5    5  +104 Maree Swanson         911  +13  924
  6    4   +46 Etty Meerding         844   +3  847
  7    3  +130 Maree Hodgetts        855  -18  837
  8    3  +122 Nina Clarke           941  -26  915
  9    3  -149*Tash Page                       718
 10    3  -162 Eileen Koops          880  -15  865
 11    1  -615^Darrel Keep           500       500
 12    0  -431 David Petrovic        586  -45  541
High game Blitz Greig 2437
High word Dawn Boyle TWEEZERS 128
 

Please check that any player flagged (by an asterisk) as a novice is not merely a misspelling. You can copy and paste this report into an email message to anounce placings and rating changes to the Scrabble Australia mailing list. The TOU file, eg 09scam.tou should be emailed to the National Rating Officer for official processing.

Please inform the National Rating Officer nro@scrabble.org.au if there were any unusual dealings, eg coping with byes or dropouts.