Exglicko2

An implementation of the Glicko-2 rating system.

The Glicko-2 rating system is a way of measuring the skill of players in competitive games. It is widely-used, and sees action in traditional games like chess and Go, as well as in modern video games.

The Glicko-2 system is an improvement upon older methods like the Elo rating system and the Glicko rating system. It uses three values--a rating, a rating deviation, and a volatility--to gain a statistical understanding of a player's "true" rating. For example, if a player's rating is 0.1, and their rating deviation is 0.02, then the player has a "true" strength somewhere between 0.08 and 0.12, with a 95% confidence.

Installation

If available in Hex, the package can be installed by adding exglicko2 to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:exglicko2, "~> 0.1.0"}
  ]
end

Documentation can be generated with ExDoc and published on HexDocs. Once published, the docs can be found at https://hexdocs.pm/exglicko2.

Usage

Players are represented by a tuple containing the player's rating, their rating deviation, and their volatility. You can obtain a default tuple for new players with Exglicko.new()

Exglicko2.new()
{0.0, 2.0, 0.06}

Ratings are updated with a list of game results passed to the Exglicko2.update_rating/3 function. Game results are batched into a list of tuples, with the first element being the opponent's rating tuple, and the second being the resulting score. This function also requires a system constant, which governs how much ratings are allowed to change. This value must be between 0.4 and 1.2

iex> player = {0.0, 1.2, 0.06}
iex> system_constant = 0.5
iex> results = [
...>   {{-0.6, 0.2, 0}, 1},
...>   {{0.3, 0.6, 0}, 0},
...>   {{1.2, 1.7, 0}, 0}
...> ]
iex> Exglicko2.update_rating(player, results, system_constant)
{-0.21522518921916625, 0.8943062104659615, 0.059995829968027437}

See the docs for more information.

License

The Glicko-2 algorithm itself is in the public domain.

This software is under the MIT License

Copyright 2020 Rosa Richter

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