Glicko rating system
Sistema de puntuación Glicko
- Date
- 1995 · confidence high
- Place
- Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Credited to
- Mark E. Glickman
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
A statistical rating system for assessing player strength in zero-sum games, developed by Mark Glickman in 1995 as an improvement on the Elo system by incorporating rating reliability (ratings deviation, RD).
What it led to
- The Glicko-2 system with a rating volatility parameter (1999)
- Adoption by online chess platforms and competitive video games
- Improved uncertainty estimation over the Elo system