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Question: Tournament Performance Ratings (Lichess)

I played a couple of the Lichess tournaments last week, 2 of them but only played a single game in each, I won both of those games and after downloading the results .csv files I was shocked to see my performance at:

tournament 1: (886 out of 1547 players)
886,, SYN-RG, 1184, 2, 2033,

tournament 2: (388 out of 720 players)
388,, SYN-RG, 1193, 2, 2047,

Was my performance in both of those games really over 2000? I am not even rated 1200 Rapid!
Performance is somehow calculated using win rate, the opponent against whom you won or lost. It doesn't go on rating
@SYN-RG said in #1:
> I played a couple of the Lichess tournaments last week, 2 of them but only played a single game in each, I won both of those games and after downloading the results .csv files I was shocked to see my performance at:
>
> tournament 1: (886 out of 1547 players)
> 886,, SYN-RG, 1184, 2, 2033,
>
> tournament 2: (388 out of 720 players)
> 388,, SYN-RG, 1193, 2, 2047,
>
> Was my performance in both of those games really over 2000? I am not even rated 1200 Rapid!
performance is based on your "opponent rating and result of games" average
loss= -500 than opponent rating
draw= opponent rating
win= +500 opponent rating
performance= average of all these values
as far as i know
@MoralHelper

That seems to make sense, I beat a player rated 1500+ (who bezerked) and then I won by resignation, so technically it could be deemed a 2000+ rated performance in context, but was merely a result of how Lichess calculates said metric.

Thanks @MoralHelper and also @Akarsh_2010 for your input

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