Modelling player strengths based on multiple observed rankings

This question boils down to: what is the likelihood of an observed ordering of a vector of independent normal variates with potentially different means?

It turns out that this question has a somewhat tractable answer based on the multivariate normal CDF; see here combinatorics - Compute probability of a particular ordering of normal random variables - Mathematics Stack Exchange

However, Stan does not have a multivariate normal CDF function, and in general it’s a hard one to compute. Some progress in this direction in Stan has been made e.g. here: Multivariate normal CDF and here Multivariate normal cdf (those posts have the same title but are different posts). Perhaps @spinkney or @martinmodrak has more to say about this?

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