Most recent distinct record from a joined MySQL table - mysql

Question

I have two tables, one of a list of competition results, and one with ELO ratings (based on previous competitions).
Fetching the list of competitors for an arbitrary competition is trivial enough, but I also need to get the most recent rating value for them.
score:
id | eventid | competitorid | position
1 1 1 1
2 1 2 2
3 1 3 3
4 2 2 1
5 2 3 2
6 3 1 1
7 3 3 2
8 3 2 3
rating:
id | competitorid | rating
1 1 1600
2 2 1500
3 3 1500
4 2 1600
5 3 1590
Expected output for a query against score.eventid = 3 would be
id | competitorid | position | rating
6 1 1 1600
7 3 2 1590
8 2 3 1600
At the moment my code looks like:
SELECT score.scoreID, score.competitorID, score.position,
rating.id, rating.rating
FROM score, rating
WHERE score.competitorid = rating.competitorid
AND score.eventid = 3
ORDER BY score.position
which gives an output of
id | competitorid | position | rating.id | rating
6 1 1 1 1600
7 3 2 2 1500
7 3 2 4 1590
8 2 3 3 1500
8 2 3 5 1600
basically it's showing the data from the score table for that correct event, but giving me a row for every rating available against that competitorID unfortunately I have no idea where to build in the DISTINCT statement or how to limit it to the most recent result.
MySQL noob, and managed DISTINCT statements, but not with joins. Unfortunately most previous questions seemed to deal with getting distinct results from a single table, which is not quite what I'm after. Thanks!

Answer 1

One way to get the rating is with a correlated subquery:
SELECT s.scoreID, s.eventID, s.competitorID, s.position,
(select r.rating
from rating r
where s.competitorID = r.competitorID
order by r.id desc
limit 1
) as rating
FROM score s
WHERE s.eventID = 3
ORDER BY s.position;
I'm not sure what ratingprid is, so this only includes the rating.