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Game Courier Ratings. Calculates ratings for players from Game Courier logs. Experimental.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Jan 12, 2006 11:34 PM UTC:
After testing some different values, I increased the value of stability, and reduced the values of reliability and gravity. One thing I was trying to do was bring all the ratings in a perfect cycle to 1500. This is where A beats B, B beats C, C beats D, D beats E, and E beats A, and they all start at 1500. I didn't succeed at this, but I did manage to bring them closer. The overall effect of the changes I made was to bring all ratings closer together. Among all the games, the greatest difference is now little more than 400. This may be a fair estimate, given that not a lot of games have been played yet, and many people have still played very few games. Also, I removed the testdata field for the time being.