title: How to rank a set of people based on competition results?
body: <p>I'm having a bit of a brain melt here.</p>
  
  <p>I have a set of people.  They compete against each other in timed events.  Each compeition yields a set of results showing everyone, ranked by their times.</p>
  
  <p>From this data, I can see that (say) person A has beaten person B 73% of the time in 48 meetings.  Simple.</p>
  
  <p>Let's suppose I have people A B C D E F G though.  For any pairing I can see who's the victor by comparing them to each other, but how do I come up with the "most accurate" OVERALL ranking?</p>
  
  <p>Does it need to be some sort of iterative process?  Any tips appreciated, I don't know where to start really!</p>
  
  <p>(Each competition is not necessarily a complete set of all of the competitors, if that matters.)</p>
  
  <p>I might like to further improve things by taking into account their relative times, not JUST "A beat B" or "B beat A".  "A beat B by 6.3 seconds", etc etc.  But let's keep things simple for now, I think!</p>
  
  <p>Happy to give more info if needed, just tell me what!</p>
  
  <p>Many thanks!</p>