I'm not going to argue this with you here, because I've been through it before.. But ELO was created for (and is most prominently used for) a community setup that exactly mirrors ours. The Chess Federation is the FGC. They are about as close as you can possibly get. Same types of events, same fluctuating levels of interest/attendance, same mix between high and low level players, events held in hotel ballrooms, college campuses etc.
Actually, its not the same. In order to attend an event in the Chess Federation, you must register, under your real name. If a player is not a member of the Chess Federation, they become one right there; since rankings are recorded by legal names. When you attend a USFC event, you KNOW in advanced if it is a "sanctioned" event... the FGC has no sanctioning body.
When you attend a tournament in the FGC; there is nothing requiring you to be a registered member of the "FGC" (or in this case, TYM). Not everybody in a tournament has an account on TYM. When Mortal Kombat 10 comes out, you will see it, a good 50% of people who attend tournaments will do so during the first month of release, never make an account on TYM, and never attend another tournament again. My system allows tournaments to handle "unranked" players... and of course, later allows them to become ranked by "claiming" their past results. In order for ELO to work, EVERY player in an event must be registered... otherwise players are completing pointless matches that don't affect their rank except to get in their way. Matches because "stop-gaps" to matches that actually matter. If you wanted to do ELO, you would have to require every person who attends a tournament to create an account on TYM on the spot; since rankings are recorded by TYM user names.
Just because the venues are the same, doesn't mean the Chess Federation has the same structure.
Another thing with the Chess Federation is that in order for an event to be ranked by the federation, it must be approved in advance. Tournament organizers who want their events ranked in the federation usually do so by strictly adhering to USCF guidelines and requirements for FIDE fulfillment. The FGC does not operate this way, we don't have a central body controlling all the movements and actions of all of our tournament organizers... in a community such as ours, which is so "boys-club" driven, that's not something I would even want.
I mean, if you can convince EVERY tournament organizer for Injustice in the world, to ensure that EVERY player who attends their events create an account on TYM (or they are not allowed to enter the tournament)... AND convince them to submit their FULL tournament results, linked to TYM account names
immediately after each event... then go for ELO. However, TO's in the FGC are extremely unorganized. It was hard enough getting some of the TO's to handle online registration, and the majority of events are still run on paper brackets. So I don't see this happening anytime soon.
