AllegSkill FAQ

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This article is meant as a general purpose FAQ, that any new player would have. For questions that current users have there is the AllegSkill interim page.

Q.	Do I lose points if I win a horribly stacked game and I was on the stacked team?
A.	No. The higher the imbalance, the less surprising the game outcome is in this case, and thus the less Mu and Sigma change. For very stacked games the changes in ratings, for both winners and losers in this scenario, are negligible compared with those resulting from well-balanced game. Your stack rating will be affected, though.

Q.	Do I lose points if I lose a horribly stacked game whilst I was on the stacked team then?
A.	Yes, lots. Since this outcome is considered highly surprising by AllegSkill, the losing (stacked) team is assessed as being much less skilled than had been initially assumed. The opposite is true of the anti-stacked team. In this case, the winners would receive a large increase to their skill rating, and the losers a large decrease.

Q.	Does AllegSkill support multi-teamers?
A.	Currently, no. The mathematics behind TrueSkill and AllegSkill is rather complicated and require solving even more complicated problems to extend AllegSkill to handle an arbitrary number of teams. Team alliances (coming in FAZ R5) are bound to only make matters worse. Multi-teamers will, however, be supported in AllegSkill 2.0. Two Weeks!™

Q.	Is there any interactive demo of the AllegSkill system to toy with?
A.	No, but you can find an interactive applet of the TrueSkill system (which AllegSkill is based on) here and here. The only major difference between AllegSkill and the TrueSkill applets is that the TrueSkill applets assume all players to have played the whole of a game.

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