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Game Courier Ratings. Calculates ratings for players from Game Courier logs. Experimental.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Your rating could also rise without playing any more games. Your rating in GCR is a holistic measure of your relative performance against everyone else in your playing network. It depends on how everyone is doing relative to each other. There is no such thing as a true rating, because all ratings are relative. The method is not trying to measure your playing strength in some absolute terms that can be given a specific number with a specific meaning. The one meaningful constant here is the difference between two players' scores. Each time it recalculates ratings, this page will be using all the data at hand to give the best estimates of relative playing strength that it can. It would not do a better job of this by keeping ratings static when people aren't playing.