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What Tinder and Halo Have in Common

Edit The Atlantic 18 Jan 2016
According to its CEO, Jonathan Badeen, Tinder uses a variation of ELO scoring to determine how members rank among the site’s userbase, and therefore, which profiles to suggest and whose queues profiles show up in. Invented by the physics professor Arpad Elo to determine rankings among chess players, ELO assigns ranks by judging players’ presumed skill levels against each other....

The Numbers Game: Predicting the AO champs (Australian Open Tennis Championships)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Jan 2016
We have estimated each player's current win ability using an Elo rating, created by Hungarian-born American physics professor and chess master Arpad Elo. The Elo ratings measure a player's (or team's) strength using all their career performance data, while weighting more recent performance outcomes more heavily. It also weights each result according to the strength of the opponent, so that a bigger win gives a bigger Elo ratings boost....

Bears Rated As Most Likely To Snag Top Pick In 2016 NFL Draft

Edit CBS Sports 29 Sep 2015
— As the Bears front office began to swap players for picks on Monday, there was one glimmer of twisted optimism. the team is the front-runner for the No. 1 choice in the 2016 NFL draft ... FiveThirtyEight uses the Elo system, devised by physicist Arpad E. Elo to rank chess players, to analyze football. View Comments. ....

Chicago Bears Least Likely NFL Team To Make Playoffs

Edit CBS Sports 21 Sep 2015
Using the Elo system, Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight finds that the Bears’ likelihood of making the playoffs now stand at a mere 5 percent. Silver has tweaked the Elo system, which was devised by physicist Arpad E....

Numbers game: ranking systems - it's complicated

Edit The Irish Times 09 Sep 2015
Who is the best? Well, it’s complicated ... The Elo rating system, named after its creator Professor Arpad Elo, is based on two parties completing a contest against each other after which the winner takes points from the loser ... Many rankings systems are derivations of Elo’s work, with details changing such as weightings to take into account home advantage, for example, or certain tournaments defined as being especially important ... ....

Numbers game: It can be a weighting issue working out just who is the best of the best

Edit The Irish Times 08 Sep 2015
Who is the best? Well, it’s complicated ... The Elo rating system, named after its creator Professor Arpad Elo, is based on two parties completing a contest against each other after which the winner takes points from the loser ... Many rankings systems are derivations of Elo’s work, with details changing such as weightings to take into account home advantage, for example, or certain tournaments defined as being especially important ... ....

Harvard study predicts Giants will win NFC East (New York Giants)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Jul 2015
(Source. New York Giants) ... That's especially true when talking data and probabilities ... Approximate Value (AV), ELO Rating (a head-to-head calculation originally developed for chess players by the physicist Arpad Elo), and odds to make the playoffs ... And because numbers never lie, Big Blue could be looking at a division title in 2015. distributed by ... (noodl. 29202293) ....

Website's latest projections give Cowboys NFL's 5th-best chance of winning Super Bowl, 82 percent chance of making playoffs

Edit The Dallas Morning News 16 Oct 2014
The website uses a team’s Elo rating to estimate that team's current strength. The method used to derive an Elo rating incorporates margin of victory, home-field advantage, strength of schedule and team quality in previous seasons. The average NFL team always has an Elo rating of 1500, and the ratings usually range from 1700 on the high side to 1300 on the low end of the spectrum ... Arpad Elo....

Website's projections give Cowboys a 50 percent chance of reaching playoffs

Edit The Dallas Morning News 25 Sep 2014
The website uses a team’s Elo rating to estimate that team's current strength. The method used to derive an Elo rating incorporates margin of victory, home-field advantage, strength of schedule and team quality in previous seasons. The average NFL team always has an Elo rating of 1500, and the ratings usually range from 1700 on the high side to 1300 on the low end of the spectrum ... Why are they called Elo ratings? ... Arpad Elo....

Chavan takes Grandmaster Anand with a surprise move

Edit The Hindu 09 Aug 2014
... a 64-square chess board, Grandmasters and the Elo rating system. Named after Hungarian-born Arpad Elo, the rating system calculates the skill quotient of chess players and helps grade and distinguish players in the highly competitive world of chess....

Pestaño: Who is the best chess player ever?

Edit Sun Star 10 Jul 2014
Arpad Elo, who developed the rating system bearing his name and implemented in 1969 was of the opinion that “it was futile to attempt to use ratings to compare players from different eras; they could only measure the strength of a player as compared to his or her contemporaries.”. According to recent estimates, Elo ratings has inflated by 100 points since the time of Fischer and 50 points since Kasparov....

Baguio IM hunts first GM norm in Dubai

Edit Sun Star 18 Jun 2014
Pascua, a University of Baguio student, is now the 15th best in the world with an ELO rating of 2,700 plus, the highest for a Filipino ever. ELO rating, named after its creator Arpad Elo, is a method of calculating skill level of players in competitor-versus-competitor games such as chess ... a bonafide IM after being rated with an ELO rating of 2,418....

SANDS: Chess champion Magnus Carlsen finally shows a little imperfection

Edit The Washington Times 11 Feb 2014
Facebook. Follow @washtimes. Will the U.S. win the most gold medals by the end of the 2014 Winter Olympics?. Login to Vote. View results. He can be beaten ... 2 Levon Aronian of Armenia and Italy’s Fabiano Caruana ... Nh4 Bh7 19. Bh3!, pinning the knight on d7 ... Nxd4 exd3 26 ... Bc6) 44 ... As we have noted before, the player rating system devised by Hungarian-born American physicist Arpad Elo a half-century ago has proved a remarkably predictive tool....
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