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   NaClKnight (naclknight@mstdn.games)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 15:14:51 JST NaClKnight

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   @capefeather How are Elo and Glicko-2 different?

   I know Elo is most associated with chess but i know it more from Nate Silver and his use of it to assess basketball and football team predictions and results

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     Bacon & Brisket Gaming (capefeather@fgc.network)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 15:14:59 JST Bacon & Brisket Gaming
     I have a sort of essay idea in my mind. In video form it might be titled something like “You don’t actually want a rating system” and the thumbnail would maybe be a “most people rejected his message” meme with the message being a number with an error value like you’d find on a Glicko-2 system like ratingupdate or Pokemon Showdown! As part of this, I feel like it would be interesting to get perspectives on why various places rejected Glicko-2, usually in favour of Elo. I know chess has stuck with Elo (despite Glicko being designed for chess lol) and PS! has Glicko ratings but uses Elo for ladder rankings. And one of PS!’s predecessors, Shoddy Battle, was the original Pokémon simulator to use Glicko-2. There might be a lot of potential there.
     
     I don’t really think I’m cut out to be anything like a regular blogger or video essayist, though.