--- In tsh-users@yahoogroups.com, Stewart Holden <stewart@...> wrote:
> I've been doing a dry run of Saturday's event and using 'rand' to give
> random results. I've notice that unrated players are being given massive
> spreads, which I guess means the random figure is somehow derived from
> their rating (?). The average 'random' spread for an unrated player
> seems to be around 300.
>
> It was also giving some players negative scores during these rounds, for
> example one game had a spread of 450 after a score something like 360
> vs. -90.

If you have "config rating_system='absp'" set, random scores should be
generated evenly distributed on [300,300+rating]. The 360 vs. -90 sounds
a little odd, and I've been unable to reproduce the problem. If you still
have the test file, or can recreate it, please send it to me.

John
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