New Rating System

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(07-17-2012 03:50 AM)Kamikaze28 Wrote:  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.

Lets leave ELO alone because our views are not that different, and they just dont matter since ELO isnt coming here.

I mentioned manipulatability because its something that Alex has mentioned as a reason for not disclosing the League criteria/formula used in Outwitters. This is what is causing some unhappyness, and what I would like to see changed.