Rule against sandbaggers

@saverius

Sandbagging is not for sure when your talking about different TCs.

A player that is good at a fast TC might simply be horrible at rapid/classical and vice versa.

@Bobkingmen3

While that player may not be sandbagging; what you reference IS sandbagging.
Players that intentionally lose games to stay below the 1500 threshhold would classify as that.

However, it is frequent for players to bounce between x&x rating; once they improve their x*x changes.
IE atm I'm 1939 in Anti. I bounce to 2050+ I drop to 1850-1900 and up down up down.
A few months ago I was doing the same at 1600 bouncing as high as 1850 and up down up down.

Its not sandbagging when a rating fluctuates like that; its having good & bad days & when one finally improves its bc they finally learned from (some of) their mistakes.

Please read the lichess.org/terms-of-service :

2. Artificially inflating or deflating your rating. This is where a User purposefully loses, or has arranged with an opponent to win. As a result, the User’s rating will artificially increase or decrease.

@Toscani
"As long as i remain in between these numbers, I'm not sandbagging."

Not really. When you first started the difference was 0, but as soon as you won or lost games, the largest difference became bigger.

So technically, if one of your ratings ends up at 700, you still probably aren't sandbagging, because you would just be 'pushing the boundary'.

Yes, that's the pattern to look for. He is sandbagging. Report this to the mods again. Direct them to this discussion, #35 above explains it correctly. I verified it, #36. It's easy to spot once you get to the correct games.

These are bullet games. I made the mistake of looking for blitz games. He wins in the tournaments and purposely looses games he gets from the pool.

Do not accuse players of cheating/sandbagging in this thread. Making a report is the best way to deal with these issues. Any more accusations will get this thread closed.