Weekly Top 200 - 03/22/2013

[LortGob]

(03-23-2013 07:55 AM)Uvafan173 Wrote:  Woah, apparently I'm in the top 100 now!

Impressive stuff dude! You're rising fast!

[GreatGonzales]

Not sure anyone's reading my other thread due to eyes glazing over, so I'll post this here too. 'Cause, I spent a couple hours on this!

I was inspired to do some number crunching using my 1v1 and 2v2 ranking trends spreadsheets, to see if we can determine the skill disparity in a player population by examining the average rank differential over time.

My reasoning is, if there is not a lot of rank shift in a particular section of the ranking list, then the player population has settled into those ranks and are therefore closely matched in terms of skill. Higher rank differential would suggest a more diverse skill disparity. Take these graphs with a few grains of salt, though: other reasons why the rank differential does not shift much include 1) The player is playing infrequently, or is not playing at all, and/or 2) Matches are more difficult so the player takes a longer time to complete matches. However, I think it's human nature to slow down on the competitive edge when you feel you have met your match. All that to say, I think it's plausible to correlate a low rank differential with low skill disparity.

tl;dr: look at the pretty graphs.

I used 1v1 ranking data from 2/1 until present. For the 1v1 population, we can see that there is very low rank differential up until about rank 45.





I used 2v2 ranking data from 3/1 until present (all that we have available to us). For the 2v2 population, we can see that there is very low rank differential up until about rank 20.





So, I'm not sure how interesting these graphs are, or how useful. But, I just felt like doing it!

[connor34911]

(03-23-2013 07:08 AM)Necrocat219 Wrote:  Yes! On every list! Connor we got 2vs2

Lets move into the top 100 next week!

[onealexleft]

This week's top 200 will be delayed since we are both at GDC this week.

[23swarm]

From clever to gifted to clever to gifted to master and now in there at #175! It's been a grind

[TheGreatAnt]

(03-26-2013 06:04 PM)onealexleft Wrote:  This week's top 200 will be delayed since we are both at GDC this week.

I never know what these abbreviations mean... >.<

[blckace]

Game developers conference?

[TheGoldenGriffin]

Why is #19 and 20 the same teams?

[GreatGonzales]

(03-27-2013 10:15 PM)blckace Wrote:  Game developers conference?

Yeah: http://www.gdconf.com/

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(03-27-2013 10:41 PM)TheGoldenGriffin Wrote:  Why is #19 and 20 the same teams?

There are several duplicate records in the 2v2 rankings, both for arranged and random. Data error that Alex hasn't cleaned up (no doubt because he has no time!). However, FYI I am removing these duplicates when I import the rankings into my spreadsheets, keeping the higher ranked value and removing the other. You may notice that there are not 200 teams listed in the most recent list, only 193.

[GreatGonzales]

Here are two more graphs to look at: