Is rating volatility a bug or a feature? [Forked]

For rating systems in chess (so no handi) it makes sense to use binomial deviance* that has a lot of other names. I’m not entirely sure how you would use it for handicap.


*It might be worthwhile to look at the solution http://www.chessmetrics.com/KaggleComp/1-TimSalimans.pdf Post-processing part is quite brilliant. Talk about Goodhart’s Law.

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