Elo ratings in MA
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2017 6:52 pm
Elo ratings are used in chess and some other areas including team sports.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system
Your rating goes up by winning against competition depending on the rating of the competition. And goes down in the same way in the losing direction.
Someone did some ratings for BJJ matches:
https://www.reddit.com/r/bjj/comments/5 ... _some_bjj/
The top competitor is at 2027. Most white belts would probably be 200-300, but could go way up fast, e.g., other grapplers should progress more quickly.
This doesn't necessarily solve belt rank issues, but it is an objective performance-based rating based on transparent statistical models.
If you compete in chess, you more or less know, with some mathematical precision, where you are at. It could be the same in sportive MA.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system
Your rating goes up by winning against competition depending on the rating of the competition. And goes down in the same way in the losing direction.
Someone did some ratings for BJJ matches:
https://www.reddit.com/r/bjj/comments/5 ... _some_bjj/
The top competitor is at 2027. Most white belts would probably be 200-300, but could go way up fast, e.g., other grapplers should progress more quickly.
This doesn't necessarily solve belt rank issues, but it is an objective performance-based rating based on transparent statistical models.
If you compete in chess, you more or less know, with some mathematical precision, where you are at. It could be the same in sportive MA.