Facebook & Ranking Elo Formula

tomcircle's avatarMath Online Tom Circle

Eduardo Saverin (now a Singaporean billionaire investor) gave the wrong Elo formula to his Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerburg, both of them became ‘accidental’ billionaire. Watch the video clip in the movie “Social Network”:

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=BzZRr4KV59I

The Elo formula is based on the theory of Normal Distribution with Logarithm function, from base of exponential e to base of 10.
The correct Elo Formula should be :
$Latex boxed
{
E_a =frac{1}
{1+ frac{1}{400}.Huge 10^{(R_b – R_a)}
}
}$

$Latex boxed
{
E_b =frac{1}
{1+ frac{1}{400}.Huge 10^{(R_a – R_b)}
}
}$

Eduardo had missed the power ^ below:

20130616-024218.jpg

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