System and method for facilitating wrestling matches and competitions

Abstract

An event management system and method for organizing and facilitating wrestling matches, as well as better matching of the wrestlers, utilizing storing and displaying results and ratings from wrestling events, analyzing the results and ratings and generating Elo-derived ratings and weigh-adjusted Elo-derived ratings for participants, and predicting the probability that a given participant will defeat another using the accurate Elo-derived ratings and weigh-adjusted Elo-derived ratings.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method of rating wrestling competitors comprising:
 (a) Receiving ratings and match results of a plurality of wrestling competitors and where the wrestling competitors participated;   (b) Deriving Elo-based ratings for each of the plurality of wrestling competitors from the ratings and the match results; and   (c) Predicting the probability that any one of the plurality of wrestling competitors will defeat another one of the plurality of wrestling competitors using the Elo-based ratings.