Interview with the creator of the TrueSkill ranking system (Channel 9)

Interview with the creator of the TrueSkill ranking system

Posted: Mar 14, 2011 at 1:42 PM

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Ralf Herbrich is the man behind the TrueSkill ranking system used in Halo and elsewhere. He is also the director of Fuse Labs in the UK and stops by our studio to talk about how TrueSkill was invented and where it's going in the future.

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Mr Crash

Mar 15, 2011 at 2:46 AM

I would like to know more about this ranking system from a developer prospective. Ex How to implement it, common mistakes developers do when implementing it, etc...
Duncanma "yeah that's awful close, but that's not why I'm so hard done by"

Mar 15, 2011 at 10:24 AM

There is a lot of additional information available on True Skill that it would be handy to link to:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/trueskill/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueSkill
Even a F# True Skill implementation http://blogs.technet.com/b/apg/archive/2008/06/16/trueskill-in-f.aspx
and a C# one with a great detailed article about it http://www.moserware.com/2010/03/computing-your-skill.html

Mr Crash

Mar 15, 2011 at 8:30 PM

Oh i missed that when i skimmed the blog post, i had it on my "to read list"

Thanks for pointing it out :)

Although i'm disappointed that there isn't a C++ version...

jhon12

Mar 16, 2011 at 4:49 AM

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