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Wildfire2099 · Joined: 20 Aug 07 Posts: 122

Looking a little closer, I think it's just the top and bottom that's of concern. In the 4 player, for instance, yoseph is 36 points ahead of the last person in div 1, which is the maximum you could lose (if you finish last every game).. that's a pretty big gap after just 4 seasons... the same at the bottom, where Adriaan and ats could win every game and perhaps still be in the bottom division.

Perhaps an upper and/or lower limit on points carried over would work? It's probably premature to change anything, but maybe some modelling would be worthwhile.

Alexfrog · Joined: 26 Oct 05 Posts: 77

I think its great as it is. It allows climbing to your correct position more quickly (it was annoying to start at the bottom, 5-0 a division and barely move up into another division that you are goign to crush again - and its not fair to the other people in that division either).

ALso, if someoen has earned a ranking at the top by dominating that division, they deserve to stay there even with one bad season.

If Tiger Woods has a bad golf tournament, he doesnt fall of the Tour and have to requalify. Similarly, the winner of divison 1 should have enough leeway the next month that doing poorly wont necessrily kick them out.

Knave · Joined: 28 Jun 08 Posts: 258

I wonder if Gaditus is referring to me... I had a terrible season in the 4-player league, but I'm still holding on to my division like grim death... mostly due to some built-up points.

There is a lot of churn in the top division of the 3-player league, only 3 of us were able to hang in there, and powermorph is hardly a long-time resident (though he did play very very well and probably deserved to win). Domster did not have that bad of a season, and he is dropping down a division regardless. Anyone can get into the top division, and to stay there all you have to do is win some games. I really do not think there is an issue.

A caveat... I no longer play in the 5-player league, so things might be a little more fossilized over there, I would not know.

mdp · Joined: 14 Nov 05 Posts: 22 Location: Wichita

Gaditus · Joined: 05 Feb 07 Posts: 1924 Location: Canterbury, UK

The reason your scores only seem to have decayed by a small percentage is that the 'underlying' score is really 500 less than that shown. 60 x .8 = 48 for example. The 500 is added for formatting reasons (all scores are now 3 digits so the tables line up!).

The exact mechanics of the scoring method are not as important as the effect - which is how players move from division to division. At the moment it is working OK, but I am monitoring it to see if the top (and to a lesser extent bottom) division(s) do not change enough.