Estimated and Provisional Ratings

Provisional Ratings

When you register players from online or from a database, they may show provisional ratings. You can have SwissSys flag these players with a “p” by the rating.

This flagging option is in the Environment options dialog, on the Registration and Editing tab.

Estimated Ratings

Similarly, if you enter a negative number for a rating, SwissSys will interpret this as an estimated rating and flag it with an asterisk while printing the estimated rating as a positive number.

For example, entering “-1500” will display as “1500*” on tournament reports, indicating that this is an estimated rating rather than an official one.