Equation 2 · Part 7 · A Showdown Ladder Rating Measures the Ladder, Not the Player
Symbol s_j
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is one of the signed contributions combined to compute the quantity on the left.
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is one of the signed contributions combined to compute the quantity on the left.
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…r' = r + g() where is a variance term built from the same g() and expected-score factors, \{0, 0.5, 1\} is the outcome of game j , and between rating periods the deviation itself grows on a fixed schedule, = , clamped to Showdown’s own configured ceiling of 130 rather than Glickman’s generic default ceiling…
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