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Patch 12th January - Tournament changes (not schedule)

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22:54 Thu 12 Jan 12 (GMT)  [Link]  
sn00kwizard said:
didnt say them all - but when you go to play a game and all are 800+ to enter - you cant play them

in a tourney they have to play you

thats how you improve


with regrads to your last post. you lose less points if you get beat by a newbie. they just gain alot lol. i do see your point m8 but i just dont think it will make the game any better, noone is gonna win every game they play, points will always be won and lost so does it really matter when and how it happens
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22:56 Thu 12 Jan 12 (GMT)  [Link]  
i dont think this about started about ranking points though damee - i thought it was to increase tourney numbers - but it turned into ranking

i think what this thread goes to show is that you cant please all of the people all of the time lol

damee
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22:58 Thu 12 Jan 12 (GMT)  [Link]  
sn00kwizard said:
i dont think this about started about ranking points though damee - i thought it was to increase tourney numbers - but it turned into ranking

i think what this thread goes to show is that you cant please all of the people all of the time lol



Irrelevant, it happens all the time. Nothing wrong with constructive posts, which your posts are anyway!

Ranking points are directly related to tournaments these days anyway.
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23:03 Thu 12 Jan 12 (GMT)  [Link]  
how about maybe having one ranking tounament per night for 800+ players??

that way those who dont like playng tourneys because of "newbies" can play against those of a closer level in every match
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23:04 Thu 12 Jan 12 (GMT)  [Link]  
sn00kwizard said:
i dont think this about started about ranking points though damee - i thought it was to increase tourney numbers - but it turned into ranking

i think what this thread goes to show is that you cant please all of the people all of the time lol



exactly! theres always going to ppl that arnt happy with the system. nick did ask for opinions on ranked tournis b4 he brought it in. and as i recall he got very good feed back frm the majority of ppl, so i guess we are stuck with it lol
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23:43 Thu 12 Jan 12 (GMT)  [Link]  
whats the point in rank now and even entering torns!!!

Bet my next torn will be a newbie and get hammered with a max because that newbie has played before. there goes 15 rank points. least before we knew who we were playing or know there stats, now we wont know a thing about a newbie which will mean they are good or rubbish, do we play a safer game or just smack the balls and hope the newbie cant pot f all lol
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23:45 Thu 12 Jan 12 (GMT)  [Link]  
you wont lose that many points to a newbie m8. if your say 850 and newbie is 680 u wuld lose only 1.5 ish but they would gain maybe 8 or 9 lol
damee
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23:45 Thu 12 Jan 12 (GMT)  [Link]  
_unforgiven_ said:
whats the point in rank now and even entering torns!!!

Bet my next torn will be a newbie and get hammered with a max because that newbie has played before. there goes 15 rank points. least before we knew who we were playing or know there stats, now we wont know a thing about a newbie which will mean they are good or rubbish, do we play a safer game or just smack the balls and hope the newbie cant pot f all lol


Well you don't know how the ranking system works. You'd lose at most 2 points due to newbie modification!
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23:48 Thu 12 Jan 12 (GMT)  [Link]  
what so if ur 900 and lose to a newbie in a torn say the final, when what?
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23:50 Thu 12 Jan 12 (GMT)  [Link]  
that aint going to be 2 points is it? calculate that?
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23:53 Thu 12 Jan 12 (GMT)  [Link]  
if your 900 i doubt you would lose lol and if you do you deserve to
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00:03 Fri 13 Jan 12 (GMT)  [Link]  
damee said:
nick said:
dgeneratio said:
there was an idea by chris on pool about a ranking system where if you played a newbie you wouldn't gain/lose anything but the newbie would gain/lose then the newbie can lose tag faster while top players can enjoy tournaments without fake newbies.


That is a good idea and something like this can still be added.


This would be good, but if you were to do this, I would suggest only enabling it for tournaments, as normal ranked games you can avoid playing newbies. I think this solution would satisfy everyone to be honest, as people who have reset aren't affecting other users rank as severely.


Agree, it would only be for tournament games. If that feature occurred in other games it would allow someone to easily donate points to a friend without loss. (Although this would be cheating and still could be caught it wouldn't be good idea to create such an exploitable hole unless there is a good reason.)

sn00kwizard said:
i agree with awarding ranking points for playing in tournaments but not taking them away.

any other ranking event played in any sport / game in the world yo dont get minus points for losing.

in ordinary ranked games - yes - otherwise we would have 1,000,000 virts but in tourneys - no

that means its only ranking points awarded for winning tournaments - OMG - doesnt that happen everywhere!!!!


An accumulative score already exists with TournaPoints, ranking is a different measurement that can go up and down, similar to Elo ratings ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system ) or FIFA would rankings (although funkypool had this system before them!).
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00:04 Fri 13 Jan 12 (GMT)  [Link]  
i think the way it was, was fine, now you can join a torn as a newbie, win that torn then your professional within 1 torn.

Think its a joke. say some newbie got lucky in an arcade torn and won it, then they are adept, or if they enter the marathon then they can get more points and end up professional at the end of it. lol.

Does one torn and winning mean they should be professional at the end of it, say not even playing a game before they had joined that tournament.

This gives newcomers an advantage of playing in torns now and gives the higher ranked players nothing and there the ones who are always on the site playing the game. why do we want dodgy noobs in our tournaments.

do one noobs lol
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00:06 Fri 13 Jan 12 (GMT)  [Link]  
I am trying to calculate your max loss as a 900 losing to a newbie ranked on average 675, however I have noticed some things on the help section on the ranking system...

1. Some of the information is incorrect. It says that a player ranked 100 points higher is expected to win 75% of the games, and if they play someone 100 points lower in 4 games and win 3 then their ranking will stay the same. This is not true. The order of the results will affect their final score, meaning they could finish higher or lower. Over 4 games the change would be no more than a couple of points, but extrapolate over say 20 games and it could be in the region of 10 points. I experienced this myself playing carom. I was ranked 2 points lower than my opponent when we started, the session finished 3-3 and I lost 1 point on where we started, he gained 1 point. This was because I got to 3-1 up, then he won 2 and because by that point I was higher, he got more for the wins.

2. The formula for calculating newbie modification is a little unclear. Am I applying standard BODMAS to it with regards to the +0.9 at the end, or is that added to the denominator? You can never have too many brackets. Also, what is "newbiegames", is this 30 (the number taken to lose newbie in a game type) or 50 (the number it says it takes to lose newbie on the help page).

If someone can clarify point 2, I'll number crunch some example results for you as they are rather basic formulae.
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00:12 Fri 13 Jan 12 (GMT)  [Link]  
i think getting to professional on a game when a newbie can now join a torn and get a massive amount of points from a single game is silly, why should newcomers join and get to professional straight away if they have a lucky run in a tournament say a ''marathon tournament''

Shouldn't you think about why is it so easy to get to professional even like me i wouldn't say i was a professional at the game but have the tag as one.

Perharps when you reach 850 then you should be a exploded professional instead with a gold star or something lol
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00:13 Fri 13 Jan 12 (GMT)  [Link]  
Also am i going mad, or have the underlines vanished from under the forum titles on the main forum page?
damee
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00:15 Fri 13 Jan 12 (GMT)  [Link]  
adam_147 said:
Also am i going mad, or have the underlines vanished from under the forum titles on the main forum page?


Yeah they have gone, really confusing!

Point 2 - It applies to the 30 ranked games required to lose newbie.
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00:20 Fri 13 Jan 12 (GMT)  [Link]  
Then the help page should say 30 not 50? And do you know about my mysterious +0.9 that is wandering around at the end?

Oh and the underlines have vanished from the thread titles too. Was this deliberate Nick?
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00:22 Fri 13 Jan 12 (GMT)  [Link]  
adam_147 said:
Then the help page should say 30 not 50? And do you know about my mysterious +0.9 that is wandering around at the end?

Oh and the underlines have vanished from the thread titles too. Was this deliberate Nick?

it was 50 games before ranked tournis came in, was then reduced to 30 i think, and no your not going mad lol well no more than the rest us
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00:24 Fri 13 Jan 12 (GMT)  [Link]  
you need 50 ranked games to post, maybe thats why its 50 under help?
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