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It seems reasonable to cap the number of points you can lose, but it strikes me as odd that you'd lose fewer points in an upset than in an even match-up.
by edaemon 6y ago
It seems reasonable to cap the number of points you can lose, but it strikes me as odd that you'd lose fewer points in an upset than in an even match-up.
- mlyle 6y agoAgreed on that point. A better mechanism, IMO, even though it doesn't catch all the cases: provisional ratings, where you don't affect other peoples' ratings much for the first n games (and where your rating moves faster, too). Effectively it acknowledges you have less of a prior when you've played few games.
- watwut 6y agoLichess is using glicko-2 which does pretty much that.