Elo rating
English
Etymology
Named after Hungarian-American physics professor Arpad Elo (1903–1992), who invented the metric.
Noun
Elo rating (plural Elo ratings)
- A metric indicating the relative skill level of a player in zero-sum games such as chess.
- Synonym: Elo
- 2015, Jens Krause; Richard James et al., editors, Animal Social Networks, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 65:
- Thus, for analyses such as Elo rating, where the order in which contests occurs matters, one must resort to creating a set of randomly shuffled contest sequences to be able to assess the effects of temporal order.
- 2018, Michael Palmer; Daniel Palmer, The First Family, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 32:
- “You're pretty good at this game,” Lee said.¶ “Got an Elo rating over twenty-six hundred.”¶ “Elo? What's that?”¶ “The FIDE uses it to rank players.”¶ “FIDE?”¶ “Fédération Internationale des Échecs,” Cam said, speaking in an exaggerated French accent.
Further reading
Elo rating system on Wikipedia.Wikipedia