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Seeded Ranks on CF-Predictor
By vkgainz, history, 4 years ago, In English

Hello Everyone,

Are the seeds for the contests on CF-Predictor calculated correctly?

On a recent contest: many users (such as me) ended up getting negative delta even though we got a lower rank than our seed (meaning we did better than "expected"), which is contradictory.

Does CF-Predictor calculate the seeds based on registered participants and not those who actually took the contest (thus making it a bit inaccurate) or are rating changes a bit off for codeforces?

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4 years ago, # |
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Auto comment: topic has been updated by vkgainz (previous revision, new revision, compare).

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The avg delta in div1 is -12. The avg delta is div2 is +40(This includes new accounts).

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    4 years ago, # ^ |
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    the average delta in div2 is still negative overall (it was also around -10 last time I checked), it is just because of the initial rating gains that make it look positive.

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    Oh wow, didn't know that. Did you find this out by looking at past data or was there a post somewhere? As far as I know the last rating explanation post was made like 5 years ago.

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      4 years ago, # ^ |
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      Just run this and input contestID

      import codeforces_api
API = "https://codeforces.com/api/"
cf_api = codeforces_api.CodeforcesApi()
contestid = int(input())
ratingchanges = cf_api.contest_rating_changes(contestid)["result"]
totaldelta = 0
for ratingchange in ratingchanges:
    newrating = ratingchange["newRating"]
    oldrating = ratingchange["oldRating"]
    totaldelta+=newrating-oldrating
print(totaldelta)
print(totaldelta/len(ratingchanges))
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