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So much sandbaggers in rated games.

When I play casual game, I play with all my effort. I win often 2300-rated players.
When I play rated games, I play with the same effort, maybe a bit higher, but almost the same.
But I noticed this wrong thing about people. They play relaxed in casual games, and in rated they start to be really aggressive. Seems like all their life depends on this game.
I don't really like it.
I play with the full effort both in casual and in rated.

But the most strange thing is that I play 2000-2200 rated people in rated games, and they play like 2300-2400 rated. And really. When I come to their page, I see that their highest rating is somewhere at 2280-2380. That's really annoying. For example, I can be 2250 at my peak. And even if I lose many, my rating never goes below 2180. So it's quite normal to have such volatility.
But it seems there are a lot of sandbaggers.
One day they play like kings and go to 2300, 2400. Another day they just flush their rating. And then they come like wolves in sheep's clothing with some innocent 2068 rating points, but slap like some Grandmasters.
These rating drops and takeoffs, is it some kind of hysterical disorder?)
You mean the rating graph that goes up and down all the time?

That are just people who play for fun and do not care about keeping their rating up
There are some playing casual because they are at their peak (inflated rating) and do not want to lose rating points playing rated games. They want to sit and admire their rating for a bit before playing rated again- and why not.
Could explain some of what u describe.
That's fine to sit and admire the high rating. But then they flush it on 200 points. It's fine to have 50, maximum 90 volatility. But not 200.
when I lost a rated game ... I usually angry , in a casual game.....no
Hello, you are talking about bullet games, right? I believe that in this kind of game, you can lose a lot of rating points rapidly if you play bad during only a few tens of minutes. I don't find that phenomenon weird in such fast games.
if u are so anxious about your lichess rating (lol) one can only imagine how will you be with your fide rating
going berserk or for example playing poker at the same time can make you fluctuate 500 points not only 200, but this is not sandbagging since its not intentional
as for the "hysterical disorder" thing, you know what i am going to say right? just too much salt. btw you dont even know what hysterical disorder means , here let me help http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Hysterical+personality+disorder
thank me later
He is right though, I know a lot of players like to berserk all games in a tournament, just for fun, and then it's totally normal that their rating goes down a couple of hundreds of points. And that's really just one example of a reason for such rating fluctuation.

I really don't think you should take ratings on online websites so seriously. Just have fun :).

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