1° There is a mistake on the page http://www.vdiplomacy.com/halloffame_elo.php
Indeed : the list has 200 players and the text above the list says "the 100 highest ranking players on this server. "
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2° Can someone please explain CLEARLY to me what exactly gives more points while playing one precise game ?
a) The result (Won, Drawn, Survived or Defeated) of the player in a game ?
b) The number of SCs controlled ? Whatever the result of the game ?
c) The rating of the other players in the game ?
d) The statistics of the country played ?
Something else ?
In one sentence : what should one try to achieve in a game if he wants to improve his rating ?
I personaly don't care about points but I know that most players LOVE points. So I would please like to understand the system so that I can better understand the motivations of some players in my games.
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3° By the way, has anyone thought that this new rating could possibly - and most probably will ! - pervert the play of many players ? For example, I have seen here a game (in the only 4 that I have finished here !) where several players refused to vote "Draw" and prefered instead to be defeated because a Defeat would reward them more DPoints than a Draw ! That was obviously not the spirit of a Diplomacy game, at least in my opinion !
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4° I would like to strongly suggest that another name is chosen for those points. Indeed, I used to be a tournament chess player and I know very well Elo points which :
a) are used only in two-player games !
b) are calculated by comparing a player's performance (1 per victory, 1/2 per draw, 0 per defeat ; that total divided by the number of games) with the arithmetic mean of his opponents in each game.
In other words, a player's rating depends on his opponents' ratings and the result scored against them.
c) have, as a consequence, this meaning : if the DIFFERENCE of Elo points between player A and player B is x, that means that player A should win y % of the points (and player B 100-y %, of course). The points are 1 for a won game, 1/2 for a drawn game and 0 for a defeat.
Elo points means NOTHING ELSE !
For example, if the difference of Elo points between two players is 0, then both players should expect to "score" 50 % of the points.
For example, if you have 400 Elo points more than another player, you should expect to win 90,9090... % of the points (or 10 games out of 11 if you prefer) when playing against him !
-> When I see that there are 777
of difference between player n°1 (bozo) and player n°2 (Shep315) and that there are 133
of difference between player n°2 (Shep315) and player n°3 (Jonnikhan), I can tell right away that such a rating has NOTHING to do with an Elo rating !
Please, don't misunderstand me : I understand that this new rating represent a lot of work and is the result of a desire of players to have an alternate rating that is supposed to represent their strength.
-> That's why I would please like to respectfully suggest that another name is given to those points.
Input of an alternate scoring system needed...
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