betiko wrote:This leaderboard makes absolutely no sense.
a monthly powerscore leaderboard was created at the same time to give people equal chances.
The "most improved" leaderboard is only for low rankers representing the same concept.. But in an unfair and arbitrary way. It encourages abuses.
-it encourages to pointdrop as much as possible before the next month starts
-it encourages to farm during a month
-it encourages to create a multi account for a fresh start and and a quick rise
I strongly disagree with this, and here is my argument why:
This Scoreboard was invented on 3rd of November, but data can be also checked for October, like for every other month. We can assume that there was no "score manipulation" in October, because on that time nobody had idea that the Scoreboard will come, so we can assume that in October everyone played "honestly". Now, let's compare results of top players from Scoreboard for every month, and see if there are some unusual score deviations after new scoreboard was implemented. In addition, I will also add comparison for "Monthly leaders scoreboard", and i will compare data of 1st, 5th and 10th placed players, the last eligible for each of medals.
Red are results which have decreased in comparison with its equivalent from October, while
blue are results which have increased in comparison with its equivalent from October.
In addition to this, do not forget that total number of players was constantly increasing in these months, so more players in latest months by default means there are more chances that results will be
higher than in October.
October: {monthly leaders / most improved}
1: 17,588 / 103.7
5: 4,176 / 79.3
10: 3,181 / 61.1
November:1:
13,428 /
106.85:
3,667 /
77.1 10:
3,109 /
58.4December:1:
8.602 /
124.45:
4.097 /
72.910:
2.747 /
60.4January: 1:
16.998 /
149.35:
4.835 /
64.510:
3.607 /
61.4So you see, 12 of considered results are
lower while 6 of considered results are
higher than it was in October, when we are sure that this kind of point manipulation (which you assume is happening now) did not happen.
Considering solely "Most improved" leader board, there are 5 results
lower and 4 results
higher than in October.
So, by considering the actual data, it is not confirmed but rather refuted your assumption that now players are manipulating their scores in order to achieve better results on monthly/most improved leader board.
Of course, if there happens some isolated case of a player who is point dumping at the end of a month in order to get the medal in the next month, then the player can be investigated and possibly properly punished by C&A team like
Kyaljs now for his the highest improvement ever of 149.3% (underlined in the above consideration because it is under pending investigation).
So, while actual data refuted your argument that players are manipulating this scoreboard as the only negative point about it, why not consider positive points and how this scoreboard is contributing to the site, like for example the fact that it gives to new and unexperienced players chance to earn something worthy while their skill is still lower, by giving them equal chance to compete for the medal versus others whose skill is on similar low level, while more or less excluding strong player from the competition. Isn't it something good for the site and encouraging for new comers to compete for a Super achievement medal? Do you think there is any other super achievement medal that newcomers have a decent chance to earn?
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:32 pm