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So Elo scores used to be used to track players until 5-10 years ago. And I think you can still view your score if you view your profile details in Magic Online.
by prepend 5y ago
So Elo scores used to be used to track players until 5-10 years ago. And I think you can still view your score if you view your profile details in Magic Online.
Back then they were trying to identify the best magic players in the world. I think it started at 1600.
In the mid 90s it was hard to get locally sanctioned games so I manually tracked games in my college town and used it as my first blog ever to post the scores of local players for a year or so. I wish the site was archived but I never kept a copy when I went to work and abandoned the site. I remember going through the formula to calculate the score and I couldn’t get it to work in excel or javascript so I manually calculated it out on paper for a few dozen games a week. I think back about how much time I could have saved if I just had a little more programming skills.