Talk:Elo rating system/@comment-25360552-20140828234109

Here is an mathematical analysis of the Elo rating system. It finds that the Elo contains a weakness because it relies on the scoring procedure (win=1, lose=0, draw=1/2). Scoring causes some chess game outcome information to be lost.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2488369