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Re: Thoughts on CoOpertition

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Originally Posted by Chris Hibner View Post
There's one problem that I see with using the chess ranking system:

A new player in chess gets to go up against established players that are already ranked, so it's easy to see where they slot into the rankings after a number of matches. The problem with FIRST is that all teams start with a clean slate at the beginning of the year. I guess what I'm trying to say is that the chess system somewhat depends on a number of players already having rankings. I don't know how it would work when everyone comes to the party unranked.
Systems like Glicko2 take more than 10 matches to accurately rank people, and the systems are more flawed than our current system since they don't take point differentials into account. A 10-0 blowout against the #1 seed because they didn't move should be worth less than a 10 / 9 match
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