It's just number of points. Don't worry about it. uclabb is a political puppet.

Comparing your profiles, it does seem very strange.

I just looked at the source code.

So it takes your position ranking across the whole list of users based on points, calculates which percentile of ranking players (defined as players with > 100 ) you're in, then allocates the rank based on which percentile you're in.

top 5th percentile = Diplomat
top 10th percentile = Mastermind
top 20th percentile = Pro
top 50th percentile = Experienced
top 90th percentile = Member
top 100th percentile = Casual Player
Anyone with 100 or fewer points = Political Puppet (they end up > 100 percentile).

Worth noting its also only on "available points" so if all your points are tied up in games you will forever remain a Political Puppet

So keep available points below 100 and sucker (I mean astound) your opponents with your innate political skills.

@Deinodon. Webdip Points are not really a rank based on skill, if you play a lot of games where people NMR/CD for example, your points will grow, but it doesn't mean you played well.

I hold GR in high regard, as it's based on the ELO. Key to rising the ranks is to challenge players that are ranked higher than you. I think BigDickBrick has a higher GR than you because he survived in one PPSC game against a player with a somewhat higher GR, this netted him some points. Quickly browsing through your games I see you played WTA (great! ;) ) which don't net you any points if you're not in the draw (you actually loose points). Key to increasing your rank in GR is joining a game with higher ranked players and drawing or winning. As an added benefit these games will also be of a better quality than games you join randomly.

A nice GR example is skidmarks btw, he debuted in last months GR at 65, because he beat 4 top 10 players in his first match. ;)

I think that more illustrates the failings of GR- it shouldn't be possible to be ranked in the top 100 of 2500 players after one game. The system doesn't have enough information about you.

That's not true, I think a beginner would have never soloed against that field if he wasn't already an avid diplomacy player from another website. I think that guy should be top100..

.. and now he is.

@ATC: If you beat magnus carlson in a FIDE tournament match up, you don't think you deserve a spectacular raise in elo? ;)

I should also note: the points ranking does not exclude inactive players. I appear to be 7th percentile with my relatively paltry 645 available points. So, yeah, I dunno that that title is particularly meaningful. :-)