Player rating for tournaments across all installments of Heroes.

Reducing the rating by 1/3 for each tournament is completely unacceptable. For example, you could reduce the rating once a year by 1/2 for everyone and remove players from the rating who have played only one tournament in a year.

I suggest justifying each number in the calculation and not pulling them out of thin air: why can the rating be reduced once a year by 1/2? In what sense - why not reduce it five times a year by 1/8?

And in general, can anyone say on what basis you propose to reduce the importance of early tournaments in relation to later ones within the calculation of the annual rating? The question is not about the numbers and the frequency of the reduction, but about the legitimacy of applying such a mechanism. Why is the upcoming February tournament worse than others, so that its rating will be reduced (once by 1/2 or several times by 1/8 - it doesn't matter) at the end of the year in relation to the subsequent December tournament? I just don't understand this...

However, I tend to believe that there is a fundamental misunderstanding in our discussion. You are confusing the current rating (which is not tied to time) with the annual rating (which is calculated at the end of the year for a strictly defined period of time). It seems to me that the issue of rating decay has confused our conversation... It is quite reasonable to reduce the current rating, but it is not reset at the end of the year, but only reflects the current state of affairs at each individual point in time. We are talking about the annual rating, which will be awarded at the end of the year and reset after that.

I suggest removing the discussion of rating decay as inappropriate.