[jmonny]

I feel your pain, look what happened to Juliana, 960 to 916 due to 1 or 2 poor events. Is that accurate, no but say someone took 2 years off for some reason, would it be fair to include their old ratings if their game had truly declined. The current rating system does give a better "right now" rating, and I think makes us create more fluctuations which keeps it interesting.