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USCF Rating Distribution

By Steve | June 6, 2008

I used the USCF membership rating database to compute the rating distribution for “active” players with established (that is, not provisional) ratings. My definition of “active” is at least one USCF tournament result in the last year. The graphs are below.

I’m thinking about writing a script to automatically harvest the data and regenerate these graphs regularly. In my “copious spare time,” of course.

3 Responses to “USCF Rating Distribution”

  1. Dave Says:
    June 6th, 2008 at 9:11 am

    Very interesting! It seems that the US has a lot more players down the lower rated end than the UK. This I guess shows that chess is more popular in the US at the grass roots level.

    http://www.bluehorizonweb.com/blog/2008/03/general/ecf-grading-statistical-distribution/

  2. Steve Says:
    June 6th, 2008 at 9:24 am

    Hi Dave,

    Thanks for commenting! I was intrigued to see that someone else had the same urge that I did to look at the rating distribution.

    I plan to post some additional comments about the USCF distribution when I get a chance.

  3. Steve Says:
    June 6th, 2008 at 9:30 am

    I think the high number of low ratings in the USCF distribution is because of the relatively large number of scholastic players.

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