Northwest Scholastic Rating System
This page contains the NWSRS ratings for Scholastic year 2007-2008 and is current through 7/4/08. Please advise any tournament director of any changes in school or grades codes when you register for a tournament. Alternatively, notices of school changes can also be sent to Kirk Winges at wa_ratings@nwsrs.org via e-mail. A note about USCF ratings and adjustments: We will continue Ollie's practice of updating NWSRS ratings to match USCF ratings if 1) the USCF rating is established (i.e.; no rating adjustment is made based on USCF provisional ratings), and 2) the USCF rating is higher than the NWSRS rating. All ratings were adjusted following this policy in July of 2008. For more than you ever wanted to know about our rating system, see: Discussion about the addition of adults in September 2007 Discussion of the NWSRS Ratings System The expansion of the WSRS to the NWSRS in the summer of 2005 was done to both to allow room for Oregon, BC and Idhao players, as well as to add room for more Washington players. There is a discussion of this expansion here: Expansion of the WSRS to the NWSRS
Columns: last name; first, 3 letter school code, 1 letter grade code; 4 digit ID call number; current rating; career games, games this year. All questions to Kirk Winges
Due to the sheer size of the list, it has been divided into four sections. Questions about School Codes? See Allcodes
list
MORE COOL STUFF. Our friends up north have implemented a cool searchable database for the
NWSRS. You can quickly search the NWSRS listings to find players by name or other stats.
Jay Zhao, the BC K-12 computer guru, clearly knows a lot more than I about webpage design
and tools. Check it out. You will like it.
While we're on the subject of people who know more about web design than me,
Signup4Chess also has a cool search engine designed to work with the NWSRS database. It
allows you to quickly find the top players in each grade in each state/province. Check it
out at:
TOURNAMENT DIRECTORS: A new utility was added on 3-14-07 called changes.exe that makes it easy to find changes you might have made to school codes, name spellings, grade codes or even new school codes you made up. You are not required to run this program before submitting your results, but you are required to document any changes you make in a separate note or e-mail to me. This program just makes it easier to find the changes you did make. A number of you have asked me for the ratings database in Excel format that shows the full ratings database with all the extra fields that are not in the .dta format. I've decided to post it to the website in zipped format. Ratings In Excel Format (zipped)
Attention TD's -- Registration Program is now Available as a replacement for the old SwissMix program. There are three versions of the registration program available in this file. See the ReadMe.txt file for the details. The program has gone past the point of being an alternative to SwissMix and is now the main option (I'm not sure SwissMix will work with the expanded ratings database). This file also includes the latest ratings database in ASCII text format, as it is stored in my master computer. This ASCII text file is regularly updated everytime the ratings change. By downloading this .zip file you will also be assured of getting any updates to the registration program as well as the latest ratings. Also, the Awards program has been re-written to work with the newer versions of SwissSys and with the larger allcodes list. The new Awards program is also contained in this .zip file along with a readme to explain it. The latest ratings file: TDdata.zip. For more information on the new registration program, see here: New Registration Program |