The median rating of a tournament player is roughly To crack the top in the country, it takes a rating of The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess. After every game, the winning player takes points from the losing one. The difference between the ratings of the winner and loser determines the total number of points gained or lost after a game.
It provides you with information on all upcoming sanctioned tournaments. Well, as an unrated player, your rating will first start to grow after your first tournament game.
As you continue to play in NASPA-sanctioned tournaments, your rating matures based on your wins and the ratings of your opponents. As stated before, your numerical rating is based off your initial tournament rating, then the rating of your opponents, and next your win-loss record.
But that's for those who already have a rating. To find out how one computes an "initial" rating, which is ten times more complicated, check out the page a detailed description on how an Initial Rating is determined, in pseudocode. They know what they may be facing, literally.
However, some Scrabble players find Elo ratings rather intimidating for the same reason — since knowing that the opponent is on the same or an even higher level than oneself can bring pressure and insecurities to the surface. Players get nervous and may play worse than they are theoretically capable of.
In that sense, the Elo ratings in Scrabble do not represent the true skills and level of each and every player. Another discouraging thing about Elo ratings in Scrabble is the fact that your playing skills might remain the same — which is an achievement in and of itself — while your personal Elo rating is decreasing. This is quite common and happens when lower ranked players improve significantly and become better than you.
Gaining those extra points means increasing your ratings and ultimately dropping less, improving, and sustaining players. This makes Elo ratings in Scrabble not so much a satisfying way to rank your personal Scrabble skills, but more a handy tool to help you compare yourself with other Scrabble players.
The latter was indeed the original idea behind implementing Elo ratings in Scrabble too. Better yet, start a Scrabble club of like-minded players, get everybody focused on Elo, and play regularly.
The more often you play against rated players, the steadier your Scrabble Elo rating becomes and the less likely it is to be thrown off by a single shellacking, given or received.
If you find that kind of play to your liking and you're looking to level up, join a ranked Scrabble club. Expect to get stomped the first few times.
Don't worry. Your Elo can take it. Everybody was a newbie once. As you read and learned about the Elo rating system, a question might have popped into your head and stayed there: Is Elo a Scrabble word? Unfortunately, Elo is not a valid word in Scrabble.
The closest word you can spell with the same letters is OLE. Ultimately, the utility of Elo rating in Scrabble depends on what you want out of the game. If your goal is to play casually, or even competitively but in a small group or on relatively rare occasions, Elo won't tell you much.
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