In this MFO thread, people are wondering where are all the experts? It's noted that many of the top rated players don't actually play rated games anymore, but play non-rated games so they'll keep a juicy rating. This is evident by the date of last game which is used by BHG (and O4B) when dsiplaying ratings.

TO BHG: When you implement the decay feature, be sure to calculate decay based on the date of last RATED game.

UPDATE: In the comments, Graham@BHG says,

The "Date of last Game" field on the ratings site is going to be changed to reflect the date of the last rated game played once decay is implemented.

1) Cool. 2) I hope that's really Graham. :-)

posted by Tim at 8:25 AM