
24-04-2010, 12:42
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Rookie Year: 2006
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Re: Thoughts on CoOpertition
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Originally Posted by Chris Hibner
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.
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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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