# Why all my model scores started from -0.1?

**URL:** <https://forum.numer.ai/t/why-all-my-model-scores-started-from-0-1/2645>\
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**Created:** [April 2, 2021, 7:19am UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/why-all-my-model-scores-started-from-0-1/2645 "2021-04-02T07:19:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![v\_newbie](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.numer.ai/v_newbie/32/613_2.png) [@v\_newbie](https://forum.numer.ai/u/v_newbie)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 7:19am UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/why-all-my-model-scores-started-from-0-1/2645/1 "2021-04-02T07:19:16Z")

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Hi guys,

All my submissions started from -0.1. The first model I submitted was from the tutorial notebook so I thought it was because the late submisssion. But the models I submitted in time last week were all started from -0.1 as well. Is it expected please?

Many thanks,  
V

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**Author:** ![ml\_is\_lyf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@ml\_is\_lyf](https://forum.numer.ai/u/ml_is_lyf)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 9:14am UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/why-all-my-model-scores-started-from-0-1/2645/2 "2021-04-02T09:14:13Z")

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Guessing you’re looking at your mean CORR score on the leaderboard? That’s your weighted average CORR over the last 20 rounds, if you miss a round, it counts as -0.1, so if you start a new account the 20 previous rounds before its creation count as -0.1. Here are your scores by round which you can see are much higher than -0.1

[https://numer.ai/v\_newbie](https://numer.ai/v_newbie)

I feel like this could be made clearer though as this isn’t very obvious when you start. I thought my models were doing terribly at first too until I realised

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**Author:** ![v\_newbie](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.numer.ai/v_newbie/32/613_2.png) [@v\_newbie](https://forum.numer.ai/u/v_newbie)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 9:24am UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/why-all-my-model-scores-started-from-0-1/2645/3 "2021-04-02T09:24:12Z")

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That makes sense, thanks bro. So it’s expected to start from -0.1 for a new model I guess. I misunderstood the “missing round” as I thought as long as you submit on time you won’t get penalized and your score should go from 0… The reputation score really frastrated me for a while…
