
TheProfessional wrote:Regarding the potential of losing points from a draw, does this depend on the ratings of all the players in the game, or just those remaining in the draw?
it has no relevance who remains - only who played.
TheProfessional wrote:I think it would be quite bad if there is any meta-gaming incentive to team up with this player over that player.
There is ALWAYs such an incentive - there was on the old system, and there will be on the new system. That is why we have tools that look for meta-gaming and that is why we hand out warnings and bans. If you are worried, play anonymous games.
TheProfessional wrote:Can you give us some idea of how much better a solo is compared to a two-way draw (without telling us the algorithm obviously). For example, if you have evenly rated players in a game, how much better would winning the game be compared to a two-way draw?
You will see soon enough

TheProfessional wrote:Is it possible to get a high rating without ever getting a solo? Relatedly, how do players who frequently draw, but never solo, compare to players who rarely draw, but do better than 1/7 for solos? For example, who is the rating system likely to favour: a player who draws 50% of the time, but never solos, or a player who solos 20% of the time, but never draws (holding fixed the ratings of all the players).
Yes; it depends; it depends.
Sorry to be a bit unhelpful, but really I think you may have misunderstood the way the system works. Your rating in any game depends on your rating and those who you play. So asking how players who frequently draw or frequently solo do is nonsensical because in each case it depends on the ratings of the other players. Do you see what I mean? Even asking how high you can get if you never solo does not make any sense. If you play every game against 6 players who are much more highly rated than you, then every draw will give you a good lift, and assuming you are able to continue finding such games then there is no limit (literally) to how high you can go. Of course, there IS a limit because eventually you would be unable to find 6 players much higher than you to play, unless we had an infinite pool of players. There has to be a ceiling. But yes, you can theoretically get a high rating if you never solo - will you be able to in practice with our pool of players? Don't know - the maths is way too complicated, and anyway it is completely subjective since 'high' could mean greater than 1500 or greater than 2000 or anything really
