This is the tournament rating system that I came up with a month or so ago. I was trying to figure out how to apply an ELO rating to my players but there is way too much math involved with that. So, I just started playing "guess and check" with different point systems until I found one that worked consistently. It took me about 10 tries with ratings and point systems and entering all the info into the "sim" tournaments before I came up with one that worked well. I made 6 game simulations to show how ratings would go up or down depending on how each player placed versus how they placed the previous games and which players they beat and which ones beat them. Then I would adjust the amount of points and how they were earned until everything fell into place and made sense. I kept a couple "good" players, a couple "bad" players and made the rest place randomly. Also, I wanted lower rated players to gain more points when placing better than higher rated players. I also wanted it to be easier to increase your rating than to have it go down. I know this looks simple but it was a lot of trial and error before the numbers made sense and worked the way I wanted.
If you track one player's progress through the 6 games, you can see that their end rating fairly accurately describes their tournament performance. You'll also notice that lower rated players get a nice bump in points when beating higher rated players and the opposite is true if a higher rated player loses to players with a lower rating. The system isn't perfect but I think it works well enough for me and my guys.
Also, I agree that a player's rating should not be posted for all to see. It will just embarrass the weaker players and they will stop coming. I use this system for tournaments so that the strong players can talk crap to each other and work to increase their rating. Every player knows about the system but if they want to know their rating, they need to ask me. They aren't allowed to ask about other players' ratings. If two or three people want to share their rating with each other for bragging/shit talking purposes then they can. But, more casual players don't have to be a part of that. I made this more for myself than for anyone else, mainly because I love statistics and creating systems like this to watch individual players' progress to a higher (or lower) rating.
You are more than welcome to steal this design if you want, or use it as a baseline and tweak it to your preference. You can also let me know if you think of something that might make it work better or easier.
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