• homoludens@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    Most people’s ELOs don’t shift much after settling into your “natural” rank, which should happen after about 50 matches or so.

    Ehm, 50 matches seems like a lot to me. Especially if they aren’t enjoyable (yet) because of flawed matchmaking.

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      3 months ago

      I pulled that number out of my bootyhole because I knew it was a safe bet for a stable ELO.

      US Chess Federation uses 25 games as your provisional ELO stage, many video games will use 10 matches. Assuming a large enough variety of ELO in the player base, you can be confident your ELO is mostly accurate after a shockingly small number of matches.