What is rating

[chinagogoya]

In Arena I found my rating is 166.
But I don't know what is rating, please explain clearly.
Thank you.

[willng3]

It's sort of like the score for your deck.  Every time you win, your rating goes up; every time you lose, it goes down.  Someone with a higher rating will have a higher rank than you.  From what I understand it was called rating because zanzarino did not want players to confuse score in the Arena with actual score in the game.

[Rutarete]

Remember that the lower your rank number, the better.

[Demacry]

Can someone help me understand why my deck that was rated 368 with 9 wins and 10 losses dropped to a rating of 782 with 9 wins and 11 losses?

[willng3]

Can someone help me understand why my deck that was rated 368 with 9 wins and 10 losses dropped to a rating of 782 with 9 wins and 11 losses?

According to Zanz, it's a visual error bug; your deck should be much higher than that but it shows up differently.  As of right now he's trying to fix it, but still doesn't completely understand why it's occurring.

[zupermannd]

Remember that the lower your rank number, the better.

then I must have an ekstemly good deck
can anyone explain how it is posibil to have a negative rating?

[Calindu]

Remember that the lower your rank number, the better.

then I must have an ekstemly good deck
can antone explain how it is posibil to have a negative rating?

What means ekstemly and antone?
And idk how it is possible.
OFF topic:Oh...look at my beautiful dragon ranked 1 in gold ^^

[ddevans96]

Rank =/= Rating. That's how.

[Terrilocks]

can anyone explain how it is posibil to have a negative rating?

If you lose, your rating goes down.

There are numbers below 0

If it wasn't like that, then you'll get loads of decks with 0 rating all ranked about the same, so negative ratings help distinguish which ones really are that bad

Or so I'm guessing.

[Genuinous]

The only thing I'd like to learn about ratings is the exact formula for every League

[lskpiano]

I'm having the same problem with rating that others have reported. I don't understand these stats:

Rank 580
Gold League
Rating -87

Won 37
Lost 11
Age 2
HP 121

How can my rating be negative when my won/lost is positive? I can understand rank of 580. That would mean there were 579 people with better won/lost numbers. But negative rating with more wins than losses????

i don't get it. Help, please?

Thanks,
LSK Piano

[MatrimKK]

from my experience leagues like gold and plat currently loss > win in rating points so you can have negative rating with more wins than losses
I assume this is in place to remove farm decks and low hp decks faster as they will lose rating(and rank) quickly