[erlang-questions] How would you do it?

[Jesper Louis Andersen]

On 7/2/12 9:41 PM, Wojtek Narczyński wrote:
> If this is a 1 vs 1 game, you might be interested in Elo Rating 
> system. If it is team vs. team, it gets more complex.
In a modern world of 1v1 games, it is better to use a more complex 
ranking system with better results. ELO is designed for 
hand-calculation. My Glicko2 code, which is a bayesian ranking 
algorithm, is on-line:

https://github.com/jlouis/erl-glicko2/blob/master/src/glicko2.erl

Do note that the Volatility root finding in step 5 is not numerically 
stable in that code. If you need a stable variant, prod me and I'll push 
a later version, which uses another variant of root-finding which has 
proven to be stable enough in practice.

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Jesper Louis Andersen
   Erlang Solutions Ltd., Copenhagen, DK