Re: Re-Organizing DSB
Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 9:24 pm
Entropy, the problem is smurfing. Beastie cannot prac with anyone but smurfs to increase his rating, as for anyone with those 1700 numbers.
They have reached a number that is not possible after we disallow smurfs. Hence, the top will remain the same forever unless they on purpose start to
practice with those nicks, which will every single time cause them to lose rating. Not even Beastie has the slightest chance of winning a prac versus 3 average
players if he has to play with 2 newbies with rating of like 700 to balance the total ratings.
As you could see from my prac scores... I played around 100 pracs on my smurfs and lost only 10 of those. And that is with a rating of 1000. That's the only
way the best can improve their ratings anymore. Play with a good smurf on your team to decrease the expected winning margin, then rape by 10k. That's
the problem if we do not reset those. We just encourage them to never play on those nicks, because it becomes literally impossible for them to increase
the ratings once smurfing will be disallowed. The numbers are unrealistic.
Not to mention the other problem. It's supposed to be a one nick game, and now there are like 10 names per player in the top lists. Unrealistic numbers that
cannot be achieved when one cannot play with smurfs anymore, and same names in top lists who are just aliases of the same player.
The reason to reset those is to motivate people to play. People might actually care about their lifetime rankings if we made them matter at all.
Because currently, no one cares... They're messed up.
Edit: Oh and so far Ent, you have been the only one resisting the reset.
They have reached a number that is not possible after we disallow smurfs. Hence, the top will remain the same forever unless they on purpose start to
practice with those nicks, which will every single time cause them to lose rating. Not even Beastie has the slightest chance of winning a prac versus 3 average
players if he has to play with 2 newbies with rating of like 700 to balance the total ratings.
As you could see from my prac scores... I played around 100 pracs on my smurfs and lost only 10 of those. And that is with a rating of 1000. That's the only
way the best can improve their ratings anymore. Play with a good smurf on your team to decrease the expected winning margin, then rape by 10k. That's
the problem if we do not reset those. We just encourage them to never play on those nicks, because it becomes literally impossible for them to increase
the ratings once smurfing will be disallowed. The numbers are unrealistic.
Not to mention the other problem. It's supposed to be a one nick game, and now there are like 10 names per player in the top lists. Unrealistic numbers that
cannot be achieved when one cannot play with smurfs anymore, and same names in top lists who are just aliases of the same player.
The reason to reset those is to motivate people to play. People might actually care about their lifetime rankings if we made them matter at all.
Because currently, no one cares... They're messed up.
Edit: Oh and so far Ent, you have been the only one resisting the reset.