The March 2015 ratings have now been added to the download area and into the Glicko Calculator/Rating History database. This was a bit delayed on previous cycles mainly due to an website stability issue which I have been trying to get sorted. Hopefully this issue is now fixed and the site will be more reliable and ratings have been updated too. Apologies for any inconvenience caused by the site stability or by the slow updating of ratings.
The December 2014 ratings have now been added to the download area and into the Glicko Calculator/Rating History database.
The September 2014 ratings have now been added to the download area and into the Glicko Calculator/Rating History database.
The June 2014 ratings have now been added to the download area and into the Glicko Calculator/Rating History database.
The March 2014 ratings have now been added to the download area and into the Glicko Calculator database. This has happened in record time (all data in place by 00:40 CSDT on March 1) due to the streamlining efforts I applied a few months ago. Enjoy!
With the new Rating History function I added a second rating database which contains all master file entries for the last 50 or so rating periods, including the most recent rating period. This meant there was some duplication of data since the Glicko-1 Calculator also has a lookup feature that was still looking at a copy of the active list I kept in a separate table. This also entailed a certain amount of duplication of effort when new rating lists are published or updates are released as I would need to make the updates in two places.
To overcome all this I have changed the Glicko-1 Calculator lookup to refer to the new tables I created for the Rating History. At this stage the Calculator just picks up the latest rating period but this could be changed in the future so that Calculator users could select the rating period they wish to use for lookups. It also simplifies my processing of new files and updates as I only need to do this in one place now.
The new lookup functionality in Glicko-1 Calculator should be indistinguishable from the old – all that has changed is the source of the data. However, if you notice any problem or even any differences, please let me know.
I’ve added a new page called “ACF Rating History”. On this page you can select up to five players from the ACF Master File and graph their rating over a period of years from 2000 until the present. If there are any problems, suggestions or whatever, please drop me some feedback.
By the way, the image generation using server side PHP scripts which hits my database. So if you want to save some output or post a graph somewhere, please save it on your client and use the static picture file. Thanks.
The December 2013 ratings have now been added to the download area and into the Glicko Calculator database. I’ve also managed to get around to replying to messages posted over the last little while. Sorry for any delays.
The September ratings have now been added to the download area and into the Glicko Calculator database. Apologies for not replying to messages over the last couple of months. I’m trying to cut through the spam and get to the genuine posts soon.
The June ratings have now been added to the download area and into the Glicko Calculator database. Please note that the ACF have replaced their Rapid ratings with the Quick rating list. For this reason the download section now contains a q201306.zip file and no r201306.zip file. From what I understand the Quick rating list rates Blitz and Rapid games.