The article 'Search for a Universal Rating Progress Function' in this issue?pwaldron wrote:
Several years ago there was a good article in the Nordic Go Journal about the time evolution of people's ratings. It turns out that the data was well fit by a decaying exponential towards a terminal strength. If you're looking to predict peak rating then one way would be to fit the data we do have on a player's rating and extract the terminal strength value.
Alternate goals and alternate aims of rating systems
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Re: Alternate goals and alternate aims of rating systems
Dave Sigaty
"Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered..."
- Marcus Aurelius; Meditations, VIII 21
"Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered..."
- Marcus Aurelius; Meditations, VIII 21