i guess they're called points, not tokens.

assuming each game had the same weighting, that would be a valuable statistic.

Good proposal, YBN, I've always thought the same. But DST is right, too: there's no point in giving to high-pot games more weighting than the others.

So why don't we simply add a "average SCs owned at the end of game" stat for each Country?
It would be very meaningful and easy to read, IMO.

Oli, would it be doable?

that would be a good stat.

Should be easy to add. And a good idea.
I use the stat-system from http://www.diplomaticcorp.com/ but I'm always open for improvements.

Either way I don't think it is a good idea. It would promote high SC survives. I think the current system captures the true idea of the game which is that a 1SC draw is way better than a 100SC survive.

Just normailze it so there isn't a greater weight to high-pot games than low pot games..

And Kaug, it depends on what statistic you are looking for. Stats for balance don't necessarily correlate to solo's or draws over a small sample set. Looking at the size (in SC's) of a country in various games might give an additional indication of whether a country with no wins and few draws is proportionally able to compete with the other countries..

@kaug, we're talking about game stats, not about the scoring system. So it wouldn't promote anything because it would make no difference for a player committed in a game. It would only add a country-anonymous stat, helping us watching how a variant works, whether there is some unbalancing, where, why. Just for study and academic purposes.
When I play a game I care to improve MY points (watching at pot, WTA/PPSC, etc...) and MY stats (win>draw>surv). I don't care about stats of the Country I'm playing, they're anonymous.
Would you play to improve the average-SCs stat of the Country you're playing (Russia or Turkey or Carthago or BritishColumbia or Alamannii or Fatflap), OR would you rather play to improve YOUR D-points or YOUR win/draw stats?

My bad, I thought it was a personal stat.

Great statistic idea, that will give a much clearer picture of game results

@DST, Yes, it would make more sense to weight every game the same so one super high stakes game wouldn't skew the results. @kaug: Say a variant has 45 sc's and 6 players. In one game, you make a 3 player draw with 1 sc. In another, you survive with 15 sc's in ppsc. In another, you survive with 15 sc's in wta. My system would give a rating of 2 for the first game, 2 for the second, and 0 for the third. The goal of the game is to play for points, so the system should be based on points. It doesn't make sense to give the first game a better rating than the second because point-wise, I gained the same in both, so it's an equal result for the country. Also, the current system would rate the second and third the same, while the second game is clearly a better result for the country. @Guarog, average sc's at the end of a game is a great idea.

to be clear, average sc's should be a separate statistic.