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Game Courier Ratings. Calculates ratings for players from Game Courier logs. Experimental.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Mark Thompson wrote on Sat, Jan 14, 2006 05:13 AM UTC:

'I also like the open-source approach (maybe make the raw data XML,
plain-text, or both), but there should also be one built-in to this site
as well, so if you don't have your own implementation you can view your
own.'

Sure, the site should have its own 'brand' of ratings. But I mean, it
would be good to make ratings from many user-defined systems available
here also. Just as the system allows users to design their own webpages
(subject to editorial review) and their own game implementations, there
could be a system whereby users could design their own ratings systems,
and any or all these systems could be available here at CVP to anyone who
wants to view them, study their predictive value, use them for tournament
matchings, etc.

Of course, it's much easier to suggest a system of multiple user-defined
rating schemes (hey, we could call it MUDRATS) than to do the work of
implementing it. But if enough people consider the idea and feel it has
merit, eventually someone will set it up someplace and it will catch on.