Comment by prepend

So Elo scores used to be used to track players until 5-10 years ago. And I think you can still view your score if you view your profile details in Magic Online.

Back then they were trying to identify the best magic players in the world. I think it started at 1600.

In the mid 90s it was hard to get locally sanctioned games so I manually tracked games in my college town and used it as my first blog ever to post the scores of local players for a year or so. I wish the site was archived but I never kept a copy when I went to work and abandoned the site. I remember going through the formula to calculate the score and I couldn’t get it to work in excel or javascript so I manually calculated it out on paper for a few dozen games a week. I think back about how much time I could have saved if I just had a little more programming skills.