Proposed new Ranking System

[Lepidus]

I'd like to propose a new ranking system and would like feedback.

How about instead of Percent Wins, it calculates the Ratio of Actual wins to expected wins.  This way people won't crank up their percentage by playing 2-player games.

The formula is quite simple and almost 100% accurate.
It's #WON x Summe (Total players who have played in those games) divided by #Games squared.

  Won  x  Summe
------------------
# Games x # Games

An average player will have a value of 1.  Good > 1. Bad < 1.

Thanks

[Lepidus]

One minor correct.  Summe is the number of opponents,

So the correct formula is:

W * (Summe + G)
---------------
 G * G

[TheBoomer]

I think it's a great idea.  I doub't that it will be implemented though.

You should post this in the feature request forum and see what a wide range of people think about it.

Boomer

[Lardarse]

This way people won't crank up their percentage by playing 2-player games.

That's hardly fair. My CantStop percentage is over 50 percent, so playing 2er won't crank it up artificially!

Sorry for ranting
Laradrse Greg

[/dev/joe]

You need to modify this slightly for games like Tichu and Doppelkopf which normally have partners. Although, since these games have a fixed number of players, the normal percent wins score is adequate.