[Delraich]

Originally Posted by breadfan

You just assign a point value to the 10 power rankings. Tournaments are worth points equal to the number of power ranked players attending.

So Glade is worth 10 points, Pig worth 9, Mafia worth 8, tgun worth 7, and so on. If everyone attends, that tournament becomes worth more points (so an ACL national event is worth more than an ACL regional, etc). Just default any international tournaments to be worth maximum power ranking points, no need to mess around with bonus points for killing a "high end player", because not all "high end players" are an equal challenge. Just base it purely on placing.

Just thinking aloud, but how do you know Glade is rank 1 and worth 10 points, Pig is rank 2 and worth 9 points in the first place? It seems like you need a system to rank and then once you know that ranking you use this data to re rank? Maybe a variant on this idea could be to give the top 10 players a flat value of 10 points each? If each ranked player is worth points, how much is number 11 or 12 worth? I do like this concept/ approach, but I am struggling to see how it would assign the ranking scores correctly if the ranking of the top 10 is not clear in the beginning.

[breadfan]

Originally Posted by Delraich

Just thinking aloud, but how do you know Glade is rank 1 and worth 10 points, Pig is rank 2 and worth 9 points in the first place? It seems like you need a system to rank and then once you know that ranking you use this data to re rank? Maybe a variant on this idea could be to give the top 10 players a flat value of 10 points each? If each ranked player is worth points, how much is number 11 or 12 worth? I do like this concept/ approach, but I am struggling to see how it would assign the ranking scores correctly if the ranking of the top 10 is not clear in the beginning.

Yes, you base it on the current power rankings (or something else). I'm not talking about creating a power ranking here, I'm saying that to begin with, you can't be totally fair and accurate from the outset. The goal is to end up with a way to rank different tournaments against each other.

You have to accept that to begin with, there's a little bit of arbitrary assignment. Whether you do it by votes from players, equally rating all tournaments, or whatever, it doesn't matter. What matters is that you get a list. Once you have a list, it gains credibility in 2013 as tournaments can actually be compare, and players can move up and down with their results.