Matthew Syed

Where the 1519.4 rating comes from

From 5 matches played between 31 July 1992 and 25 September 2000, and from them alone. Every line below was written at computation time: nothing is recomputed to show this page.

How to read this

On the right: the change this match produced, then the value before → after. A line's arrival value is the next line's starting value, down to the starting rating given to every newcomer. A ±0.0 is a counted match that did not move the rating, a walkover for instance.

5 matches, from the most recent to the first

beaten by Peter Franz 0–3
25/09/00 · Olympic Games 2000 · Group O · detail
−30.11549.5 → 1519.4
25/09/00 · Olympic Games 2000 · Group O · detail
+22.11527.4 → 1549.5
31/07/92 · Olympic Games 1992 · Group C · detail
+24.01503.5 → 1527.4
beaten by Jörgen Persson 0–2
31/07/92 · Olympic Games 1992 · Group C · detail
−15.51519.0 → 1503.5
beat Ashraf Helmy 2–0
31/07/92 · Olympic Games 1992 · Group C · detail
+19.01500.0 → 1519.0

Only the matches the source publishes appear; what is missing is listed. The source gives the day, not the hour: two matches on the same day are ordered by a reproducible rule, which is not necessarily the real order.