Ranking Systems: What I’ve learnt so far
I often go off on massive tangents reading all about a new topic but don’t record what I’ve read so if I go back to the topic again in the future I have to start from scratch which is quite...
View ArticleElo Rating System: Ranking Champions League teams using Clojure
As I mentioned in an earlier blog post I’ve been learning about ranking systems and one of the first ones I came across was the Elo rating system which is most famously used to rank chess players. The...
View ArticleGlicko Rating System: A simple example using Clojure
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the Elo Rating system and when reading more about it I learnt that one of its weaknesses is that it doesn’t take into account the reliability of a players’ rating....
View ArticleElo Rating System: Ranking Champions League teams using Clojure Part 2
A few weeks ago I wrote about ranking Champions League teams using the Elo Rating algorithm, and since I wrote that post I’ve collated data for 10 years worth of matches so I thought an update was in...
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