Using Symbolic Regression to Add Uncertainty to Elo’s Famous Ratings System

And creating an unexpectedly useful ratings algorithm

Blake Atkinson
Towards Data Science
12 min readJul 6, 2023

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A Universal Ratings System

The Elo ratings system has become famous in a few contexts. Perhaps most famously, it has been been the basis of Chess ratings since the 1960’s. Additionally, the website 538 has…

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M.S. in Data Science, mostly sports things, @blaketatkinson on twitter, open for new work