Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 17:51:56 07/31/98
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On July 31, 1998 at 14:00:04, Peter Fendrich wrote: >The ratings on ICC and FICS are really swinging. IMHO they are using a >completely wrong approach to handle this. The ELO formula is not at all suited >for the kind of events taking place on these real time severs. The original ELO >formula is using a kind of constant a 'dampening' factor for varitaions during >time. At least on ICC they have tried to use another, more dynamic but similar >method to handle this problem. There are new, much better, ways to deal with >this. Nowerdays used within some of the space, aero and automotive applications. Both ICC and FICS tried to use the Glicko system. On ICC, they made it an "extra" rating system, but I don't think anyone paid much attention to this, so it is removed from the "finger" notes. It is still there, but to see it you have to use "yfinger". On FICS, they made this the only rating system. I am not there much, but I remember seeing a lot of posts about this, people were upset about this system because if you played a lot, your rating tended to stay constant no matter how you did, and people wanted to have more movement in their ratings. So I believe that on FICS they patched Glicko somehow, so that ratings would still move a bit. bruce
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