New Rating System

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(07-16-2012 11:54 PM)Kamikaze28 Wrote:  During the beta, I brought up a similar point and Alex (the Alex) made some very convincing points about why there are no viewable skill rankings:

To quote from the discussion:

onealexleft Wrote:A lot of the design decisions in the league play are geared to making players play *more* and worry less about outcomes.

I understand that the current league design philosophy doesn't include what I have suggested, I just wonder if other players are happy as it stands or would like something along the lines I suggest?

Some good points made so lets look at them:

Quote:1.Outwitters does not use ELO, the values used are anything but human-readable and knowing them doesn't get you anywhere.

Two possibilities here, the unreadable numbers could be converted to readable, or an elo type system could replace them.

Quote:2.The whole point of divisions is to avoid a monolithic leaderboard. Being ranked #35,811 of 156,425 just doesn't mean anything to anybody and the lower 95% just won't care about it anyway.

I must admit it is my preference to know where I stand, it may not be anyone elses, and to me being #5,811 of 15,142 in say the master division would be better than #30 in a random league of 100, or 71 in a different league in that same division. Basically your league position just depends on which league in that division you have been assigned.

Quote:3.Show a skill rating to people and once it's high enough they are motivated not to play anymore, because they might lose and fall down the ranks.

I would be very surprised if there was much of that, however you could easily overcome that by an inactivity penalty if no games are played, so they would descend the rankings.

Quote:4.Show them a score they can maximize instead and they'll go to the ends of the earth to do so.

I don't quite understand this comment, can you elaborate?