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Wait I wrote a wall of text explaining the ELO formula tweak and it disapeared :'(

I'm not sure I understand your comment, the plot just shows how the system works. Do you think it's more "ELO profitable" to play against lower rank players ? Yes, it often can be, depending on the game. Some players I can beat all day, if I only win 1 point each time those are just free ...

I'm not sure I understand your comment, the plot just shows how the system works. Do you think it's more "ELO profitable" to play against lower rank players ? I think there is something interesting to understand about the impact of luck and ranking systems. ELO is great for chess were ther...

https://github.com/RemiFabre/elo/blob/master/expected_winrate.png?raw=true So I plotted the expected winrate VS ELO difference between 2 players and found the result to be quite interesting. If you have 100 ELO more than your opponent, you're expected to win almost 2 games out of 3. At +200 ELO, it...