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Ratings against Nationally-graded players don't count. So my rating went down with a bump when I finally got my FIDE grade two or three years ago: my earlier wins against Nationally-graded players no longer counted.

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Jan 19, 8. Good luck with your search. Jan 20, 9. Jan 20, Feb 12, Bhaskarmukherjee wrote: I am playing in chess. Apr 9, Apr 10, Sep 26, Feb 23, First of all, let's not pretend chess players don't care about ratings.

We do. Mar 17, Apr 17, May 10, A secondary, more ambitious goal is to use ratings to compare players between different eras.

It would be convenient if a FIDE rating of meant the same thing in that it meant in If the ratings suffer from inflation , then a modern rating of means less than a historical rating of , while if the ratings suffer from deflation , the reverse will be true.

Unfortunately, even among people who would like ratings from different eras to "mean the same thing", intuitions differ sharply as to whether a given rating should represent a fixed absolute skill or a fixed relative performance.

Those who believe in absolute skill including FIDE would prefer modern ratings to be higher on average than historical ratings, if grandmasters nowadays are in fact playing better chess.

By this standard, the rating system is functioning perfectly if a modern rated player would have a fifty percent chance of beating a rated player of another era, were it possible for them to play.

Time travel is widely believed to be impossible, but the advent of strong chess computers allows a somewhat objective evaluation of the absolute playing skill of past chess masters, based on their recorded games.

Those who believe in relative performance would prefer the median rating or some other benchmark rank of all eras to be the same. By one relative performance standard, the rating system is functioning perfectly if a player in the twentieth percentile of world rankings has the same rating as a player in the twentieth percentile used to have.

Ratings should indicate approximately where a player stands in the chess hierarchy of his own era. The average FIDE rating of top players has been steadily climbing for the past twenty years, which is inflation and therefore undesirable from the perspective of relative performance.

However, it is at least plausible that FIDE ratings are not inflating in terms of absolute skill. Perhaps modern players are better than their predecessors due to a greater knowledge of openings and due to computer-assisted tactical training.

In any event, both camps can agree that it would be undesirable for the average rating of players to decline at all, or to rise faster than can be reasonably attributed to generally increasing skill.

Both camps would call the former deflation and the latter inflation. Not only do rapid inflation and deflation make comparison between different eras impossible, they tend to introduce inaccuracies between more-active and less-active contemporaries.

If the winner gains N rating points, the loser should drop by N rating points. The intent is to keep the average rating constant, by preventing points from entering or leaving the system.

Unfortunately, this simple approach typically results in rating deflation, as the USCF was quick to discover. Rating points enter the system every time a previously unrated player gets an initial rating.

Likewise rating points leave the system every time someone retires from play. Most players are significantly better at the end of their careers than at the beginning, so they tend to take more points away from the system than they brought in, and the system deflates as a result.

In order to combat deflation, most implementations of Elo ratings have a mechanism for injecting points into the system. FIDE has two inflationary mechanisms.

First, performances below a "ratings floor" are not tracked, so a player with true skill below the floor can only be unrated or overrated, never correctly rated.

Second, established and higher-rated players have a lower K-factor. There is no theoretical reason why these should provide a proper balance to an otherwise deflationary scheme; perhaps they over-correct and result in net inflation beyond the playing population's increase in absolute skill.

On the other hand, there is no obviously superior alternative. Performance can't be measured absolutely; it can only be inferred from wins and losses.

Ratings therefore have meaning only relative to other ratings. Therefore, both the average and the spread of ratings can be arbitrarily chosen.

Elo suggested scaling ratings so that a difference of rating points in chess would mean that the stronger player has an expected score of approximately 0.

In practice, since the true strength of each player is unknown, the expected scores are calculated using the player's current ratings. When a player's actual tournament scores exceed his expected scores, the Elo system takes this as evidence that player's rating is too low, and needs to be adjusted upward.

Similarly when a player's actual tournament scores fall short of his expected scores, that player's rating is adjusted downward. Elo's original suggestion, which is still widely used, was a simple linear adjustment proportional to the amount by which a player overperformed or underperformed his expected score.

The formula for updating his rating is. This update can be performed after each game or each tournament, or after any suitable rating period.

An example may help clarify. Suppose Player A has a rating of , and plays in a five-round tournament. He loses to a player rated , draws with a player rated , defeats a player rated , defeats a player rated , and loses to a player rated His expected score, calculated according the formula above, was 0.

Note that while two wins, two losses, and one draw may seem like a par score, it is worse than expected for Player A because his opponents were lower rated on average.

Therefore he is slightly penalized. New players are assigned provisional ratings, which are adjusted more drastically than established ratings, and various methods none completely successful have been devised to inject points into the rating system so that ratings from different eras are roughly comparable.

The principles used in these rating systems can be used for rating other competitions—for instance, international football matches.

In general the Elo system has increased the competitive climate for chess and inspired players for further study and improvement of their game.

It has enabled fascinating insights into comparing the relative strength of players from completely different generations, such as the ability to compare Capablanca with Kasparov for example.

However, in some cases ratings can discourage game activity for players who wish to "protect their rating". It has been suggested that an overall increase in ratings reflects greater skill.

The advent of strong chess computers allows a somewhat objective evaluation of the absolute playing skill of past chess masters, based on their recorded games, but this is also a measure of how computerlike the players' moves are, not merely a measure of how strongly they have played.

The number of people with ratings over has increased. Around there was only one active player Anatoly Karpov with a rating this high.

In Viswanathan Anand was only the 8th player in chess history to reach the mark at that point of time. The current benchmark for elite players lies beyond One possible cause for this inflation was the rating floor, which for a long time was at , and if a player dropped below this they were stricken from the rating list.

As a consequence, players at a skill level just below the floor would only be on the rating list if they were overrated, and this would cause them to feed points into the rating pool.

By July it had increased to In a pure Elo system, each game ends in an equal transaction of rating points. If the winner gains N rating points, the loser will drop by N rating points.

This prevents points from entering or leaving the system when games are played and rated. However, players tend to enter the system as novices with a low rating and retire from the system as experienced players with a high rating.

Therefore, in the long run a system with strictly equal transactions tends to result in rating deflation. In , the USCF acknowledged that several young scholastic players were improving faster than the rating system was able to track.

As a result, established players with stable ratings started to lose rating points to the young and underrated players.

Several of the older established players were frustrated over what they considered an unfair rating decline, and some even quit chess over it.

Because of the significant difference in timing of when inflation and deflation occur, and in order to combat deflation, most implementations of Elo ratings have a mechanism for injecting points into the system in order to maintain relative ratings over time.

FIDE has two inflationary mechanisms. First, performances below a "ratings floor" are not tracked, so a player with true skill below the floor can only be unrated or overrated, never correctly rated.

Second, established and higher-rated players have a lower K-factor. Rating floors in the United States work by guaranteeing that a player will never drop below a certain limit.

This also combats deflation, but the chairman of the USCF Ratings Committee has been critical of this method because it does not feed the extra points to the improving players.

A possible motive for these rating floors is to combat sandbagging, i. Human—computer chess matches between Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov and demonstrated that chess computers are capable of defeating even the strongest human players.

However, chess engine ratings are difficult to quantify, due to variable factors such as the time control and the hardware the program runs on.

Published engine rating lists such as CCRL are based on engine-only games on standard hardware configurations and are not directly comparable to FIDE ratings.

The Elo rating system is used in the chess portion of chess boxing. In order to be eligible for professional chess boxing, one must have an Elo rating of at least , as well as competing in 50 or more matches of amateur boxing or martial arts.

American college football used the Elo method as a portion of its Bowl Championship Series rating systems from to after which the BCS was replaced by the College Football Playoff.

The use of rating systems was effectively scrapped with the creation of the College Football Playoff in ; participants in the CFP and its associated bowl games are chosen by a selection committee.

In other sports, individuals maintain rankings based on the Elo algorithm. These are usually unofficial, not endorsed by the sport's governing body.

The World Football Elo Ratings is an example of the method applied to men's football. It is the official rating system of major organizations such as the Intercollegiate Tennis Association and World TeamTennis and is frequently used in segments on the Tennis Channel.

The algorithm analyzes more than 8 million match results from over , tennis players worldwide. On May 8, , Rafael Nadal — having won 46 consecutive sets in clay court matches — had a near-perfect clay UTR of One of the few Elo-based rankings endorsed by a sport's governing body is the FIFA Women's World Rankings , based on a simplified version of the Elo algorithm, which FIFA uses as its official ranking system for national teams in women's football.

In , Nate Silver, editor-in-chief of the statistical commentary website FiveThirtyEight , and Reuben Fischer-Baum produced Elo ratings for every National Basketball Association team and season through the season.

An Elo-based ranking of National Hockey League players has been developed. National Scrabble organizations compute normally distributed Elo ratings except in the United Kingdom , where a different system is used.

The North American Scrabble Players Association has the largest rated population of active members, numbering about 2, as of early Lexulous also uses the Elo system.

New players are assigned a rating of , with the best humans and bots rating over VogClub sets a new player's rating at Despite questions of the appropriateness of using the Elo system to rate games in which luck is a factor, trading-card game manufacturers often use Elo ratings for their organized play efforts.

However, the DCI abandoned this system in in favour of a new cumulative system of "Planeswalker Points", chiefly because of the above-noted concern that Elo encourages highly rated players to avoid playing to "protect their rating".

Similarly, Decipher, Inc. The Esports game Overwatch , the basis of the unique Overwatch League professional sports organization , uses a derivative of the Elo system to rank competitive players with various adjustments made between competitive seasons.

Nevertheless, it is common for players of ranked video games to refer to all ratings as an Elo. According to Lichess, the Elo system is outdated even by chess standards, with Glicko-2 now being used by a significant number of chess organisations.

Various online games use Elo ratings for player-versus-player rankings. Since , Golden Tee Live has rated players based on the Elo system.

New players start at , with top players rating over The initial K-value was 30, but was changed to 5 in January , then changed to 15 in July Roblox introduced the Elo rating in The browser game Quidditch Manager uses the Elo rating to measure a team's performance.

RuneScape 3 was to use the Elo system for the rerelease of bounty hunter in In [55] [ circular reference ] an online gaming ladder called Clanbase [56] was launched, who used the Elo scoring system to rank teams.

The site later went offline in The Elo rating system has been used in soft biometrics , [59] which concerns the identification of individuals using human descriptions.

Comparative descriptions were utilized alongside the Elo rating system to provide robust and discriminative 'relative measurements', permitting accurate identification.

The Elo rating system has also been used in biology for assessing male dominance hierarchies, [60] and in automation and computer vision for fabric inspection.

Moreover, online judge sites are also using Elo rating system or its derivatives. For example, Topcoder is using a modified version based on normal distribution, [62] while Codeforces is using another version based on logistic distribution.

Elo rating system has also been noted in dating apps, such as in the matchmaking app Tinder , which uses a variant of the Elo rating system.

The Elo rating system was featured prominently in The Social Network during the algorithm scene where Mark Zuckerberg released Facemash.

In the scene Eduardo Saverin writes mathematical formulas for the Elo rating system on Zuckerberg's dormitory room window.

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