An Elo-like System for Massive Multiplayer Competitions · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2101.00400/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTAn Elo-like System for Massive Multiplayer Competitions — mentioned by porphyrahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26116729urn:hackerpapers:mention:2101.00400:26116729Fri, 12 Feb 2021 18:22:16 GMT<p>For certain types of multiplayer games the recent Elo-MMR is even better (faster, provable guarantees) [1][2]. Quote from the paper regarding TrueSkill: &gt; The main disadvantage of TrueSkill is its complexity: originally developed by Microsoft for the popular Halo video game, TrueSkill performs approximate belief propagation on a factor graph, which is iterated until convergence. Aside from being less human-interpretable, this complexity means that, to our knowledge, there are no proofs of key properties such as runtime and incentive alignment. Even when these properties are discussed, no…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2101.00400/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.IR