Pending Make rated games average of 2 ratings

[pokemonisfun]

So the rating for games is just the rating of the lower rated player, correct?

It seems more intuitive to just take the average rating of the two instead.

Under the current format, a 1800 playing a 1600 is rated the same as two 1600s which doesn't seem sensible to me. I'd suggest making this game 1700 instead.

This is so obvious I'm sure there's a logic to using the lower rated player, but I don't know what that could be.

Thanks for your time!
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[Zarel]

Generally, I would assume people sorting by rating are looking for high-level play, not, like, a curbstomp. You can't learn much from a curbstomp. That's why it's done from the lower of two. You could make an argument for either taking the higher or the lower, but the average doesn't make sense here; it's a "worst of both worlds" metric.

 

[pokemonisfun]

Generally, I would assume people sorting by rating are looking for high-level play, not, like, a curbstomp. You can't learn much from a curbstomp. That's why it's done from the lower of two. You could make an argument for either taking the higher or the lower, but the average doesn't make sense here; it's a "worst of both worlds" metric.

Okay how about we change it to the higher rated player only then? I think people are more interested in the higher rated games anyways which is the reason I suggest this

 

[DrPumpkinz]

Okay how about we change it to the higher rated player only then? I think people are more interested in the higher rated games anyways which is the reason I suggest this

People are more interested in higher rated games because they mean that both players are highly rated. Having one of the players suck would undermine this.

Simply giving a battle a bigger number without changing anything about the match does not make the match any more interesting, so the reasoning of "give more battles a high rating because people like high-rated battles" does not make any sense.

That said, the option to choose which rating (the lower opponent or the higher opponent) to sort by could work.

 

[pokemonisfun]

People are more interested in higher rated games because they mean that both players are highly rated. Having one of the players suck would undermine this.

Simply giving a battle a bigger number without changing anything about the match does not make the match any more interesting, so the reasoning of "give more battles a high rating because people like high-rated battles" does not make any sense.

That said, the option to choose which rating (the lower opponent or the higher opponent) to sort by could work.

hence my first suggestion: higher average means both players are on average higher so if you want to see "both players are highly rated" you could go with my first suggestion too...but your second option to choose also works