How Does Global Agenda's Skill Rating System Work?

Tags: pvp, rating, skill

A question that has been popping up often on the official forums lately is "how do those Skill Rating stars get calculated, and how do they play into matchmaking?"

According to Erez Goren, the lead designer of Global Agenda, the system in use is "a modified version of TrueSkill." For those who haven't heard of it, TrueSkill is a rating system developed by Microsoft which they employ for matchmaking on the Xbox Live gaming service.

You can find out more about the TrueSkill system, the math involved, and other common questions on the Microsoft Research website.

The amount of research that goes into rating/ranking systems can be astounding at times.