Hi everyone,

I write this topic to talk about an idea for OSR. The idea is to add an "ELO OSR".

What's the ELO OSR ? "The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in competitor-versus-competitor games such as chess". Elo OSR could allow the players to follow their evolution in the league.

When a player loses or wins a game, his elo changes. With this information, we can make a visual presentation of the evolution and the improvements of the players in the league.

The elo system allow us to bypass the "placement division" too. When a new player come in OSR, he can get an ELO from his kgs rank. And then, this player will go directly in the division with players of the same level.

Summary: follow the evolution of each player and avoid the placement division.

Hi,

Thanks for sharing this idea.

I really like it and it shouldn't be very hard to implement.

I have to confess some more urgent stuff require work website wise. So this will wait.

If anyone feels like finding information on how to calculate such an elo, let me know.

As for the league structure, that's something that will be discuss here.

I'm more skeptical of using a separate rating system. Since we already have the KGS rating system, why not just use that? Since the population of this website is relatively small, I wonder at how the distribution of ranks on this website would impact the use of an ELO system, since, as I understand it, the ELO system math assumes a certain distribution of ranks ina population. Also, the ELO system is notorious for inflation of ranks over time. Just my 2 cents.

The ELO system has some advantages compared to the kgs rating system :

• give an elo for the player who has not a kgs rank ([-]) depending of the level he annouces
• for the moment, in this league, there is only even games. The kgs rank is based on differents kinds of game (even game and handicap game). Having a elo system for OSR could give a better approximation of the lvl of a player in only even games.
• In kgs, there is a lot of blitz game, the kgs rank is probably different if the player play serious and long game (like in OSR).
• With an internal elo system, we can create personal graphs and probably more acurate than the kgs graph.

This is so elements for the ELO system but I need to think more about the pros and cons.

I think this is right than the ELO system is good with a big population but OSR population is growing =) .

Hey,

Thanks both of you for sharing your thoughts !

I really don't know anything about how rank works, but if we needs big population with a certain ranks distribution for it to work, I guess it's better to wait a bit.

Anyway, waiting was the plan.

I still like the idea of being able to see players improvments. RIght now, our best succes/strenght indicator for a player is win/loss ratio. I will put it in a user profile soon.

Let see how this community grows and get back to it in a month or 2.