From the Big Huge Ratings page -- updated O4B rankings. Only 33 players in top 100 are established and active. This does NOT mean people are not playing, as there are 42 players who are active but have not yet played at least 10 games. One player has a 2200+ rating after only 3 games. This exposes one of the weaknesses of the BHG system: it's really easy to get an established high rating. Unlike the U.S. Chess system, after which this is modeled, you can never smurf or play as an "unrated" once you've established a rating. So the system has no need to prevent smurfing. But this system doesn't translate well to an on-line environment where smurfing is common.

One suggestion for BHG: make it more difficult to create an established rating, not easier. Right now it's 8 games. Chess uses 20. BHG ought to use 25 or more, just to reduce the incentive players might have to flood the board with high-level nicks. If you're a 2300 rated player. You're a 2300 rated player. All the nicks you creat will quickly get to that high level. So if you were to smurf and play 8 games with 10 different accounts, you could easily have the top 10 listings. Another option they have is to screen names using IP addresses, or at least identify which names might be common IPs. These don't solve the problem, but they make it slightly tougher.

Anyway, here are the latest:

O4BRank	Rank	Player                   	Rating	W	L	#	Date

1	1	I_aM_AnDy                	2690	76	20	96	11/21

2	4	PCA_Frogman              	2302	35	0	35	11/22

3	6	AS_REVENGER              	2220	19	2	21	11/23

4	11	Apolonius                	2200	27	2	29	11/23

5	13	Mulfar                   	2179	22	4	26	11/26

6	15	PCA_newty                	2156	51	18	69	11/25

7	16	ESPerItou                	2155	10	0	10	11/18

8	20	TWC_ShaDowZ              	2148	35	8	43	11/25

9	21	Udon_Bomber              	2148	31	5	36	11/10

10	22	TuF_Astator              	2146	51	12	63	11/25

11	30	Ma_ARes_rS               	2122	24	2	26	11/14

12	31	#ICON40Strife            	2122	25	8	33	11/25

13	35	PCA_mayupu               	2115	9	1	10	11/19

14	37	DaRq_Vorfidus            	2111	18	7	25	11/18

15	44	_RedruM_                 	2096	21	4	25	11/25

16	45	DaRq_xYz                 	2095	11	2	13	11/21

17	48	PCA_Mell                 	2087	25	4	29	11/25

18	49	G_DoG_                   	2087	23	5	28	11/15

19	50	PCA_konkon               	2087	14	4	18	11/26

20	52	camel                    	2086	9	4	13	11/16

21	55	AKoH_NiGhtMaRe_          	2079	14	2	16	11/24

22	57	Silvery_Dragon[ms]       	2079	14	5	19	11/25

23	60	Gigi                     	2075	19	5	24	11/24

24	62	PCA_yuu_rerise           	2075	22	3	25	11/20

25	63	NaturalCoCaiNe           	2073	8	4	12	11/25

26	74	UD_Renegade              	2056	34	16	50	11/21

27	80	AU_MeMeNTo               	2051	33	10	43	11/25

28	83	I_HoSt_1oN1              	2040	77	20	97	10/26

29	87	SolituS                  	2037	13	1	14	11/17

30	88	GM_KouTousoV             	2036	9	2	11	11/24

31	89	PCA_MATUURA_AYA          	2032	35	10	45	11/25

32	91	El_Capitan               	2031	57	13	70	11/23

33	94	smurfkiller              	2030	13	2	15	11/23

posted by Tim at 7:53 AM