Player rating for tournaments across all installments of Heroes.

No, you say – a player's rating should always increase, and if it decreases, it should be exclusively due to aging?

I'm not an expert, but is that how it works in real life? If a player performs well and suddenly shows poor results, doesn't their rating drop?

His rating "drops" relative to other players because of a smaller increase in absolute value. That is, let's say I received +10, and you received +20 points. Both of our ratings are increasing, but mine is decreasing relative to yours. The relative component of the rating is important, not the absolute one...

What difference does it make if my rating dropped or increased compared to the previous value of my rating? What matters is how my rating has changed compared to other players. That's it. Everything else is irrelevant. How can you not understand this? We've repeated this so many times.

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This is how tactfully we refuse to comment on the situation with Radik and VDV. Note that we are talking about 2nd and 3rd place.

I have long ago stated my conclusion that you do not understand the meaning of the oscillator... Its purpose is to partially compensate the player for falling behind the leader if the player took a high place, and vice versa.

The second participant did not fall behind the leader, and there is nothing to compensate for – he is almost at the maximum. The player who took third place has a significant gap. Your non-linear calculation hits him very hard. But he took third place (!). And the player receives compensation for taking a high place. And if a player with the same result took last place, he would receive a significant minus for taking last place. The meaning of the oscillator was created precisely for this!

Because the place matters regardless of the result. Can you even understand the meaning of several words in a row? I don't even know what to tell you anymore...