Comments on: Supreme Commander web stats return

By: AD

AD — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:13:00 +0000

Nice to know that they are back. I am a bit skeptical on using them again, not sure if the same would not happen again.
I have shifted to GoStats.com , and happy with them.

By: IN-Agent911

IN-Agent911 — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:28:33 +0000

Elo is a skill based system, and not a number of games system. No where in the formula does it care about number of games. It makes an adjustments to players ratings based on the skill difference. The only way number of games helped out Sir_Loui is that he got better at Supcom itself through a lot of practice. He is clearly the number 1 player right now and I can’t think of anybody better. Watch his replays for a while if somebody doesn’t beleive it.

By: falcon1970

falcon1970 — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:43:17 +0000

@Malloy. oh - thanks a lot. So to crack the top 1000 I need 44+ rating points.

By: theShiznit

theShiznit — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:42:07 +0000

*cough

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELO_rating_system

*cough

By: Molloy

Molloy — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:11:13 +0000

I stopped playing ranked games 3 months ago. My rating hasn’t changed as far as I can see but I’ve lost 500 ranking positions.
http://gpgnet.gaspowered.com/scstats/player/ByGametype.aspx?PlayerID=144814

By: Eukaryote

Eukaryote — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:32:10 +0000

Due to the way the Elo system works, it is theoretically possible to gain rating even with a win/loss ratio of less than 50%. All it takes is that your opponents have sufficiently higher ranking than you (the opposite is obviously true as well).

By: Cyde Weys

Cyde Weys — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:13:11 +0000

T2A`: You say that Elo rewards more ranked games, but then you go on to contradict yourself. Elo doesn’t reward more games. As you point out, it’s that someone with fewer games has played worse opponents. But the rating is caused solely by the wins and losses against opponents of various ratings and doesn’t factor “number of games played” into it anywhere.

By: falcon1970

falcon1970 — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:27:51 +0000

Another thing about the site being “fixed”. Its obvious that the DBs are created/changed only when you are logged in, and not from the main DB. I have not played a ranked 1v1 match in a few weeks. I have since quit the clan I was in (just because I wasn’t playing much, nothing personal), and yet it still shows me in that clan. I will log in tonight get smoked in a 1v1 probably (ha) and then check the page tomorrow.

On a side note, my rating is 1801, I remember the day that was good enough for 2 stars and a top 800 rating! Now I’m at 1366 or such. Obviously though this is a good thing, ‘more better’ competition. I think it’s time to try to get back into the top 1000, which was always my goal as a very casual SupCom player.

By: T2A`

T2A` — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:58:08 +0000

Elo does reward more games played, but this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. There’s a reason I’m ranked ~1300th with only six losses — I’ve only played 34 ranked games (and all but one of them being before v3251). If RandomJoe has 600 wins and 400 losses, there’s a good chance his wins will have been against lower-skilled players and thus not worth many points. Conversely, his losses were probably against better players, also not worth that many points. RandomJoe is likely not very high on the ladder, while Loui is because he actually wins against high-ranking players.

By: Meddish

Meddish — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:37:41 +0000

FINALY!!!
WELL AT LEAST now i can bost that im number 29 in australia!!!
that makes me feel better again…
now i need about 10 more wins to get into the top 10 in aus!!!

well getting all the stats back online would be nice….
so would the custom game avatar for GPG least then u can know if someone is a noobie or just plays ranked games all the time