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_SRM_PsycHosis wrote:QUOTE (_SRM_PsycHosis @ Feb 1 2007, 11:30 PM) then it put aarmstrong, myself, and weedman on the team of the better comm...

...proof positive of algorithm suckage

_SRM_PsycHosis wrote:QUOTE (_SRM_PsycHosis @ Feb 2 2007, 01:30 AM) then it put aarmstrong, myself, and weedman on the team of the better comm...

Aslan wrote:QUOTE (Aslan @ Feb 2 2007, 11:47 PM) ...proof positive of algorithm suckage

...in that case, why complain about ELO or algorithm suckage. That happens on a nightly basis. It's called stacking. In fact, let's just rename ELO 'the stacking algorithm'. Maybe people will start to like it.

Weedman@XT(0)? Hah! WTF is up with that?

ROFL

I suggested to Pook that the algorithm be changed a bit to give voobs better ranks. Looks like something goofed up during the update /mrgreen.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="mrgreen.gif" />

I went in there and found/fixed it though, so everything is back to normal.

For reference, before this change all players who were 1yr old or younger got a -15 modifier to their elo all the time. This made 11month voobs have ranks that were lower than they should be.

Now the -15 is applied on a ramp; brand new newbies are -15, 6month newbies are -7.5, and 1month newbies are -1ish.

--TE

I wondered why I jumped from a 17 to a 20....

--Adam

I think it should be adjusted the other way tiger, give the voobs a slightly worse rank.

Pook wrote:QUOTE (Pook @ Feb 1 2007, 02:28 PM) Stats are recorded for every game.

Will the stats COUNT? Yes, unless:

- The stats count flag is turned off.
- Game was < 5 minutes.
- Game didn't have at least 10 players for half the game.
- Winning team's expected outcome was > 70%.

I've seen games where autobalance is used, but the stats count flag is off. At the end of the game, the Game Statistics page still shows 'Game counted'. Did the game really count, or is this an error?

That flag isn't currently being used iirc, plans were for the future to count only stats with that flag and autobalance, though I think that's r5ish.