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I wonder if ELO makes sense for something like this that is so inherently unstable/not-normally distributed? I.e., in chess, if you're playing an opponent whose
by yowzadave 3y ago
I wonder if ELO makes sense for something like this that is so inherently unstable/not-normally distributed? I.e., in chess, if you're playing an opponent whose rating is +800, you have less than 1% chance of beating them. But in this case, we have Peppa Pig currently at 1875, vs. the BMW 3 series at 1072. Can we really say with any confidence that Peppa would beat the BMW 99 times out of 100? It seems unlikely that increasing the number of matches will change the instability of this rating.
- paulddraper 3y agoIt makes sense, unless the comparison is non-transitive. I.e. a scissors-paper-rock scenario.
- Tenoke 3y agoYes, it makes sense except that the rating will be provisional and the variance really high until you have a lot of comparisons.