@rocambille/elo

Elo

Enrich your objects with Elo rating.

Installation

npm i @rocambille/elo

Basic usage

import elo from "@rocambille/elo";
// or const elo = require("@rocambille/elo");

const player = elo();

let foo = { a: 42 };
let bar = { z: 43 };

const odds = player(foo).oddsAgainst(bar);

console.log(`foo has a ${odds * 100}% chance of winning against bar`);

[foo, bar] = player(foo).wins(bar);
// or [foo, bar] = player(foo).loses(bar);
// or [foo, bar] = player(foo).ties(bar);

console.log(foo, bar);

Should print something like this:

foo has a 50% chance of winning against bar
{
  a: 42,
  elo: {
    rating: 1516,
    matchCount: 1,
    lastDelta: 16,
    lastPlayedAt: 1629554837908
  }
} {
  z: 43,
  elo: {
    rating: 1484,
    matchCount: 1,
    lastDelta: -16,
    lastPlayedAt: 1629554837908
  }
}

Note that the elo module keeps foo.a and bar.z untouched. It enriches the objects with Elo stuff (rating, match count, last delta and last play timestamp). This is useful if you want to add elo rating on top of existing data, e.g. coming from an API.

The Pool object

You can manage a whole collection using the Pool object as follows:

import { Pool } from "@rocambille/elo";
// or const { Pool } = require("@rocambille/elo");

let pool = Pool.from([{ a: 42 }, { z: 43 }, { x: 44 }]);

const odds = pool.player(0).oddsAgainst(1);

console.log(`player 0 has a ${odds * 100}% chance of winning against player 1`);

pool = pool.player(0).wins(1);
// or pool = pool.player(0).loses(1);
// or pool = pool.player(0).ties(1);

console.log(pool);

Should print something like this:

player 0 has a 50% chance of winning against player 1
[
  {
    a: 42,
    elo: {
      rating: 1516,
      matchCount: 1,
      lastDelta: 16,
      lastPlayedAt: 1629554837908
    }
  },
  {
    z: 43,
    elo: {
      rating: 1484,
      matchCount: 1,
      lastDelta: -16,
      lastPlayedAt: 1629554837908
    }
  },
  {
    x: 44,
    elo: {
      rating: 1500,
      matchCount: 0,
      lastDelta: NaN,
      lastPlayedAt: NaN
    }
  }
]

The Pool provides a useful method to pick player indices using multiple options:

import { Pool } from "@rocambille/elo";
// or const { Pool } = require("@rocambille/elo");

let pool = Pool.from([{ a: 42 }, { z: 43 }, { x: 44 }]);

// use one of the following lines to pick players

const [i, j] = pool.pick("random"); // randomly pick
const [i, j] = pool.pick("matchCount"); // pick players with a low match count
const [i, j] = pool.pick("lastPlayedAt"); // pick players who have last played in the longest time
const [i, j] = pool.pick(); // pick players by randomly choosing one the above method (recommended)

// then you can use i and j to trigger a match

pool = pool.player(i).wins(j);

Configuration

You can pass a configuration object as parameter to the elo function. Here is an example with the default values:

import elo from "elo";
// or const elo = require("@rocambille/elo");

const player = elo({
  initialRating: 1500,
  DMax: 400,
  kGenerator: (eloData) => {
    if (eloData.matchCount < 30) {
      return 32;
    }

    return 24;
  },
  propsKey: "elo",
});

Same works with the Pool object, using the Pool.config method:

import { Pool } from "elo";
// or const { Pool } = require("@rocambille/elo");

const pool = Pool.config({
  initialRating: 1500,
  DMax: 400,
  kGenerator: (eloData) => {
    if (eloData.matchCount < 30) {
      return 32;
    }

    return 24;
  },
  propsKey: "elo",
}).from(...);

The module will use initialRating for players with an undefined rating. See details of Elo rating system for the DMax and k factors.

License

elo is open source software licensed as MIT.