Rating system for online games in Heroes of Might and Magic IV.

Therefore, you also need to take into account missed games because he submitted an application and didn't show up – the penalty is a deduction of rating points.

I explained it. If he doesn't show up, he will get 0 points for each game in the tournament. In the end, he will have a total of 0 points, which means he will be in last place. Why now complicate the rating formula by including absences when his rating will be calculated based on his ACTUAL PLACEMENT? If you're having trouble deciphering the formula, that doesn't mean it's wrong. It's already been tested, and you have rating lists with hundreds of people calculated using it. But the fact that you're stuffing the formula with who knows what, but you supposedly perfectly understand why you're doing it, doesn't mean it's correct. At least because there are no real calculations, and then I tried to explain that all absences will be taken into account if the formula only includes the parameter PLACEMENT.