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How do you determine my skill rank?

Skill ranks are established separately for each game you compete in. When you first start playing a game, your skill rank is 100. It will remain at 100 until you have won at least $2.50. Once you have won this amount, we start calculating your skill rank. The first step is to establish your win ratio. This is done by dividing your total winnings by the total amount spent on entry fees. Next we sort all currently active players in order based on their win ratio. The skill rank is then determined by evenly distributing these players into 99 skill ranks with 1 being the highest and 99 the lowest. The top 1% of the players will have skill rank of 1, the next 1% are 2's, etc.

How often does my skill rank change?

The skill ranks are recalculated every 5 minutes so that they may often change several times while you are playing.

Why do you have different skill groups?

The skill groups provide a way of matching you against other players that have similar ability. They are designed so that new players are not forced to compete with more advanced players. As you compete, your skill rank is continually adjusted based on your ability. As your skill rank changes you may move from one skill group to another until eventually settle into the one that best matches your ability.

We currently have 4 skill groups: 1-29, 30-59, 60-99, and 100.

I just played a few games and my skill rank went from 100 to 1. Why?

A new players skill rank may change dramatically at first. As mentioned above, the win ratio is determined by the total amount won divided by total amount spent. Let's say you enter a tournament three times and spend 75 cents. If you then end up winning the tournament and the jackpot is $5.00. That would give you a win ratio of 6.666 which would be more than enough to put you into skill rank 1. If you played in another 5 games at 25 cents each and didn't win, then your ratio would drop to 1.666 which might change your skill rank to something like 30. When you first start playing, the number of values being compared is small, so any one event (win or loss) can affect your skill rank significantly. After you have won more and played more, then a single win or single loss has very little affect on your rank.

How can my skill rank change if I have not played games in 3 days?

Skill rank is an indication of where you stand compared to others playing the same game. Even when you are not playing other players are. Players above you may move down, players below you may move up.

I have been loosing recently, but my skill rank is going up

For example, you can play a tournament today and have the high score. The tournament may close a week later and that win will be considered at that time in the skill rank calculation. So you may have lost 10 $.10 tournaments today, and then a $10 tournament from a week ago closes that you won. So your skill rank is decreasing during the .10 losses then all of sudden goes up when the $10 win closes.