• The Picard ManeuverOP
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      115 months ago

      It’s the rating system for competitive gaming that was originally developed for chess, but has since been applied to all sorts of gaming, sports, etc. sometimes you might even hear people refer to a game’s matchmaking rating as “elo”, even it’s not called that.

      Also, fun fact: it’s not an acronym, it’s a guy’s name:

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system

        • The Picard ManeuverOP
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          125 months ago

          Oh no, it’s completely free to play. What I meant was that when a game is over, the winning player gains rating points and the losing player loses rating points, proportional to the rating difference between them.

          Since I had lost that game, I lost rating (elo) points. But, since the system recognized that it was against a cheater, which isn’t fair, it gave me the points back when they banned him so that my rating would be unaffected.