What is Rating ?????

[Technoob]

was wondering what was the rating that comes up with !statsdota command ingame i know that someone sure posted this before , but i can't find the answer ,and its really bugging me since i'm getting kicked because of my rating

[vaikiss]

it means nothing the higer rating the lamer ur stats is the lower ur rating the higer ur stat is  or smth like that

[vtiger]

I won't start a new thread but can someone shed some more light on the rating formula please... maybe the mods...

Is it calculated upon win/loss event and does it depend on the avg rating of your team vs the average of the opposition?

Lastly... why not completely rip the FIDE Elo rating system (http://www.chesselo.com/) for the job, giving the players +/- points relying on the avg(rating_your_team)/avg(rating_opposition)... the higher the better - it would be rather nifty in having a rating system with a widely adopted analog in a classical field(though I do admit that probably few people play chess here... so it might be kind of pointless, but to some like me it'd be...."prettier" i dunolol).

Lastly, lastly, lastly... call it L337hax0r5kill_p0intZ or somthing so people would pay more attention to it, since it really sux to sneak through all strategic pushes and set up ganks that win the game with support chars, only to leave the game with a negative K/D score and then get kicked from 90% of the games you join where noobish riki players mastrubate to each-others K/D's.

Not _really_ asking anything here... just throwing round some thoughts someone might find interesting...
Thank you for your attention!

[Astrinos]

New rating system is on the way, and to the most part, it will be fair and will represent a players true ability (statistically speaking)

I agree to the most part with you. The current rating formula is bugged. A good example is when a player has more loses than wins and more K than D. Then it literally goes berserk (seen rating 7000 lol).

[Boki_]

im waiting 4 the new one....  this right now, no ofend, sux...