Elo rating

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Elo rating

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Named after Hungarian-American physics professor Arpad Elo (1903–1992), who invented the metric.

noun Elo ratings

A metric indicating the relative skill level of a player in zero-sum games such as chess. 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.
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@misc{elo_rating_2026,
  title = {Elo rating},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/elo%20rating},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}