March 9th, 2004, 04:42 PM
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Re: SE4 Rating System
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Originally posted by Slick:
I'm not in the rating system, just an outside observer. But I follow KOTH and the Ratings site just for fun. After having read that proposal, one thought kept running thru my mind: "keep it simple". Just my $0.02
[edit: Here's an idea. If there were 4 players as you describe, just score it as 3 1vs1 games. A beat B, C and D. B lost to A, but beat C & D, etc. This would mean no new formulae. Yes, it would suck to be D, but he did come in Last...]
Slick.
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This was the original proposal by myself. One of the good things about it was the ability to compue scores as people were eliminated.
However, some people objected to it because the first person out in a 5-rated-player (for example) game would lose 4 x 15 (to use an example calculation). Some thought that was excessive and might make players stay away from multiplayer games. For my own purposes, it's easiest to keep track of and as long as the person is aware ahead of time what they are getting into when they join a multiplayer game they shouldn't complain if they get "bitten"  .
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