Equation 7 · Part 1 · A Showdown Ladder Rating Measures the Ladder, Not the Player
Symbol c^2
What this part means
The square of c: multiply c by itself.
Its job in the formula
is one of the signed contributions combined to compute the quantity on the left.
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The passage around this formula
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 of 350 [ 2 , 3 ] . Substitute Showdown’s published c = 6.6775026092 and the schedule is fully determined: it is not a metaphorical “uncertainty,” it is a specific number computed the same way every 24 hours for every account on the ladder. A brand-new Showdown account starts at RD = 130 — already at the…
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