BDR
Official identity and rating network
Rated Open Play with a central source of truth.
Organizer sites operate the session. backdoorrating.com remains the official player identity and rating authority.
What BDR adds
More games create more evidence.
Persistent identity
One player history across approved organizers and connected sites.
Reliability
Show how much verified evidence supports the current rating.
Provisional status
Do not present limited early history as final certainty.
Category evidence
Repeated performance helps reveal where a player consistently belongs.
What we do not claim
No rating can honestly guarantee that sandbagging disappears. BDR creates persistent verified evidence so sustained misclassification becomes harder to maintain.