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Game Courier Ratings. Calculates ratings for players from Game Courier logs. Experimental.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Jan 14, 2006 04:52 PM UTC:
No, I have no intention of doing anything along the lines of Mark
Thompson's 'open source' suggestion. While some people might like to
play with their own ratings system, most people are simply going to want
one standard ratings system without the fuss and bother of choosing one
among many. Also, if I set something up to freely let people create their
own ratings systems, there would soon be many bad ratings systems for
people to choose from. As for letting a free market choose the best one,
it wouldn't work like that. Without the benefit of serious investigation
into them, there would be little basis for informed decisions. A bad
system could become popular as easily as a good one. Consider how well
things like astrology and numerology fair under a free market. A free
market is no substitute for scientific investigation.

If people are interested in Game Courier having as good a ratings system
as it can, then they are free to offer comments and suggestions. I have
described the method in algorithmic detail on this page, and I have also
further discussed what it does and have compared it with Elo.