New Rating System

[Kamikaze28]

(07-17-2012 03:40 AM)ArtNJ Wrote:  

(07-17-2012 03:05 AM)Kamikaze28 Wrote:  Even the oh so highly revered ELO system would suffer the same fate if it started without any prior knowledge. Just because you could see your rating fluctuate wildly in the first days does not mean that the matchmaking is any better.

That just isnt true. Twenty games is a ton under the ELO system. Nor can ELO be meaningfully manipulated.

ELO works fine if there are a lot of players already ranked to quickly determine the ranking for new players. But if you start from scratch, ELO takes just as long to sort everything out. By which I mean that the most highly skilled players arrive at the top and the worst players sink to the bottom.
No matter what ranking system you chose to compare the current model to, the fact remains, that all these systems are information-driven. Whether or not the current system processes the generated information better or worse than ELO or any other system is debatable.

The manipulability was not mentioned in this thread yet and since you cannot pick your opponents in Outwitters, I maintain that neither system can be manipulated.