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.
