The start each player is given. Handicap is the number the club actually uses; Suggested is what the Elo formula would produce for this field. They are set independently — see below.
The baseline is the average of the field on screen (1497 here), not a fixed number. A handicap only has to be fair between the people actually playing — a field of strong players measured against a club-wide average would all get 0, which is level play dressed up as a handicap event.
The divisor (6) decides what a rating gap is worth: with 6, every 6 Elo points of difference is worth 1 point of start. Unrated players count as 1500.
A player above the average gets a negative handicap and starts the frame behind, rather than everyone above average collapsing onto the same 0 — which threw away a 188-point gap between your strongest players. The overlay has always drawn this as “+12 / −15”, with 0 shown as scratch.
Pts/frame and Margin HC are a second opinion, measured from the frames themselves rather than from match results: average points scored minus conceded, then the gap to the field's average. There is no divisor, because a handicap is already in points. It needs at least 15 scored frames — 17 of 36 players here have that, and the rest show —. Choose it under Apply from to write this column instead of the Elo one. Field average margin is -2.4 a frame.
Nothing calculates the Handicap column. It is typed in by an admin on the player record. The formula above exists only inside a tournament, where it is opt-in per event — so the two columns agree only by coincidence. Right now they match for 10 of 36 players.
| # | Player | Elo | Manual HC | Suggested | Pts/frame | Margin HC | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andreas Rogoz | 1381 | 20 | +19 | -31.3 | — | +1 |
| 2 | Yaseen | 1388 | 17 | +18 | -5.8 | +3 | -1 |
| 3 | Ivan | 1423 | 13 | +12 | — | — | +1 |
| 4 | Jamie Berkoff | 1421 | 13 | +13 | -15.3 | +13 | — |
| 5 | Prasanna | 1441 | 10 | +9 | -5.2 | +3 | +1 |
| 6 | Ram | 1458 | 7 | +7 | -4.5 | — | — |
| 7 | Ali Syed | 1529 | 4 | -5 | -3.1 | +1 | +9 |
| 8 | Mike Monegato | 1473 | 4 | +4 | -5.4 | +3 | — |
| 9 | Raj Bansal | 1479 | 3 | +3 | -23.8 | — | — |
| 10 | Tony Bolahood | 1479 | 3 | +3 | -8.4 | — | — |
| 11 | Ze Dong | 1478 | 3 | +3 | -9.5 | — | — |
| 12 | Misaq | 1472 | 3 | +4 | -1.7 | -1 | -1 |
| 13 | Private player | 1443 | 3 | +9 | -8.5 | +6 | -6 |
| 14 | Harry Berkoff | 1488 | 2 | +2 | -79.0 | — | — |
| 15 | Eyad | 1532 | 0 | -6 | -1.4 | — | +6 |
| 16 | Bharath | 1501 | 0 | -1 | -20.9 | — | +1 |
| 17 | Himalay | 1500 | 0 | -1 | — | — | +1 |
| 18 | Jeremy | 1500 | 0 | -1 | — | — | +1 |
| 19 | Sid Sidhwa | 1500 | 0 | -1 | — | — | +1 |
| 20 | Syed Salman | 1500 | 0 | -1 | — | — | +1 |
| 21 | Tai San | 1500 | 0 | -1 | — | — | +1 |
| 22 | Zack | 1500 | 0 | -1 | — | — | +1 |
| 23 | Zubeen | 1500 | 0 | -1 | — | — | +1 |
| 24 | Nag Patluri | 1499 | 0 | scratch | — | — | — |
| 25 | Hamid Ali | 1480 | 0 | +3 | -22.0 | — | -3 |
| 26 | Hamed | 1465 | 0 | +5 | -22.0 | +20 | -5 |
| 27 | Jon S | 1452 | 0 | +8 | -10.1 | +8 | -8 |
| 28 | Pushkar | 1529 | -2 | -5 | -5.8 | +3 | +3 |
| 29 | Sudarshan | 1510 | -2 | -2 | -3.1 | — | — |
| 30 | Hemanth Kumar | 1602 | -3 | -18 | +14.4 | -17 | +15 |
| 31 | Shreyas | 1559 | -5 | -10 | +3.6 | -6 | +5 |
| 32 | Jerry | 1519 | -5 | -4 | -0.5 | -2 | -1 |
| 33 | Felix Zheng | 1510 | -6 | -2 | -4.4 | +2 | -4 |
| 34 | James Kosinski | 1472 | -13 | +4 | -18.2 | +16 | -17 |
| 35 | Renat Denhka | 1671 | -29 | -29 | +35.7 | -38 | — |
| 36 | Tom Tan | 1755 | -36 | -43 | +10.7 | -13 | +7 |
Diff is Handicap minus Suggested: a positive number means the club gives more start than the rating gap alone would justify. A handicap is only added to the starting score when the scoreboard is opened with “apply handicap” — otherwise it is recorded against the match but the frame starts 0–0.