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| Feb 27, 2021 at 16:08 | comment | added | BCLC | glicko involves rating deviation...is this perhaps more relevant for online people with no particular schedule rather than for actual chess professionals who are expected to play on a more consistent basis? | |
| Jun 21, 2012 at 22:40 | vote | accept | Eve Freeman | ||
| May 13, 2012 at 17:38 | comment | added | Tony Ennis | This is informative. chess.com/article/view/chess-ratings---how-they-work | |
| May 13, 2012 at 17:19 | comment | added | Tony Ennis | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glicko_rating_system | |
| May 13, 2012 at 17:17 | comment | added | Tony Ennis | Interesting. However, I'd affirm that 'better on average' isn't necessarily 'better'. What if the times when it isn't more accurate causes actual harm? I'll go read up on it, however. | |
| May 13, 2012 at 1:20 | comment | added | Eve Freeman | +1, although I disagree with the first paragraph, the rest of it is true enough. 1) Glicko is proven to be more accurate on average (measured in terms of how often it is able to predict who will win a given match). 2) About abstracting a human mind to a number, this isn't really the case. It is a measure of skill, such that you can calculate probabilities (for win/draw/lose) when comparing skill levels. It's all backed by math and statistics. In Glicko-2 there's even a new factor for volatility, for those players who play inconsistently (allowing their ratings to fluctuate more). | |
| May 13, 2012 at 0:41 | history | answered | Tony Ennis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |