Quote Originally Posted by Gondorian View Post
A two-week season starting 1st Feb could be done. I'm opposed to changing the default rating from 0 but I can adjust pairing logic to reflect the new rating landscape.
With us about to start a new season, I've returned to confirm something above.

After spending a lot of January considering the idea of shortening the rated season, I decided not to propose it to the board for implementation for a number of reasons:

1) Having a season last exactly a month is incredibly easy for people to track, whether veteran or new player. Any smaller period of time would not be.

2) Completing 50 matches or so in a month is a reasonable target for everyone and allows for statistical significance in your match results. Halving the time available without sacrificing the statistical significance of 50 games would put too much time-pressure on players.

3) We have some changes due to go live by mid-February that should boost player activity across the full rating range.

Good luck to everyone in February!