advice on Fargorate going down after +59 effective rating

There is a lot of over interpreting going on here.

Couple points.

(1) You are in a suburb of Sydney AUS, and a lot of your recent play is against Lidcombe players. So even if you don't play, the system is constantly getting new information determining how Lidcombe matches up to other parts of Sydney, how Sydney matches up to the rest of Australia, and how Australia matches up to the rest of the world. In other words if Lidcombe players tend to not live up to the expectations from their ratings, the players who have all their play in Lidcombe might go down by 1.5 points. And if, say, a third of your games are against Lidcombe opponents, then you might go down half a point. This sort of thing is happening every day and is going on whether you play or not.

(2) You should not take the "performance" number in digitalpool very seriously. It tends to be more meaningful when you have many matches against many players with well established rating. You don't meet those criteria here. One of your opponents, Kay, had no information at all in Fargorate. And so games against Kay don't at this point affect your rating. If Kay plays more over the next several months, the system will start paying some attention to your wins against her. Of the other two players, one has an unestablished rating, and so the system will at this point weight the assessment of those games less. But if we ignore that, your two opponents, Milo and Dennis average about 500 and you won 6 games and lost 12 (won a third of the games). This is the expected number of wins of a player rated about 400.
Thanks Mike, I really appreciate your explanation.
 
There is no "start" in FargoRate. When you see unknown players assigned 500 or 525 or whatever, that is just an ad hoc assignment for convenience that is outside the system. The FargoRate process doesn't even know about those assignments.
Thank you for the clarification
 
well, this is disappointing indeed. I'm destined to die as a 400 :( Although I see the point about a lot of my recent opponents having provisional ratings too, so my 'high' performances haven't actually been as high as I had hoped.
I would guess if you actually play at a higher rating consistently for another 200 games or so, you will jump up a few dozen points in that time. Playing well in one tournament won't help much.
 
well, this is disappointing indeed. I'm destined to die as a 400 :( Although I see the point about a lot of my recent opponents having provisional ratings too, so my 'high' performances haven't actually been as high as I had hoped.
What are you in other handicap ratings? Here is a comparison chart from Dr. Dave.
 

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if your rating gets higher than your ability then you lose all the time. why would you want that.

its like in golf, players always brag about how low their handicap is so do poorly with it in tournaments and matching up for cash.
 
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