Re: [pbmserv-dev] ratings and "stale" players

[Robert Barrell <games@rdbhn.org>]

Not sure if my original email for this got through or not, but I still 
like the idea of eroding away ratings based upon inactivity, not just a 
list of inactive players.  After a certain amount of inactivity in any 
given game (i.e. the whole game, such as "Backgammon," not just one 
game, as in one board), X number of points would be removed from the 
player's rating for that game.  Should the player return to that game, 
he wouldn't just, all of a sudden, receive back his full, original 
rating, but he wouldn't be completely starting from scratch, either, 
unless he had been away long enough to erode down to nothing.