tonyh: Well what this site needs is a Backgammon rating system in place - since the current rating system is based on Chess which is mostly a skill game - and does not work as well with games like Backgammon which does include some luck along with skill.

Of course that discussion has come up many times in the past, and Fencer had been a little interested, but not really enough to put it in place - but the hope that someday he will.

And remember - last time he did something to the rating system, the system looked back to game #1 and redid the ratings from the very start - so even though the rating system does not work too well now, my opinion is to not worry about it to much - and continue to play as well as you can - and you never know, Fencer might redo all the ratings with a better rating system and fix everything up to this point. (then again, maybe not - but we can hope.)