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Crunchums
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States11143 Posts
August 09 2010 20:19 GMT
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On August 10 2010 05:04 Housemd wrote:
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On August 10 2010 04:34 Crunchums wrote:
On August 10 2010 04:15 Housemd wrote:if you rank a person by how he is playing right now, best should be dropped down one spot. he has been tearing it up in the proleague but in the individual leagues he has not been doing so well.

This is another thing: People overvalue starleague performance when it comes to ranking. The way they work (i.e. single elimination bracket structure) is not conducive to ranking by skill.

Uhm....actually starleague performance is really important. In proleague you usually get two chances a week to improve your record, if you do not play the ace match (which best usually does not do) So you actually have more chances to win (you also have higher chances to play against players that are lower levels that you).

in the osl and msl, you get players that are the same level than you and/or better than you. However, you will most likely meet these players in the ro16 onwards. Before that, the caliber of your opponents are low level. Think about that. If you lose games to lower level opponents, it just shows that you suck. In single elimination the stakes are raised and playing on a higher level and winning shows the true caliber of a player.

The problem is that the order you play other players in is pretty fluky. Say you run round robin Bo3's with every player from the Ro36 (not realistic obv) for the first Korean Air OSL. Maybe Jaedong still loses to Baby, but I'd imagine he ends up rank higher than he would if you rank the players based on how early they got eliminated. Why then, are you punishing Jaedong for having played Baby in the Ro36 instead of the Ro8 or the Ro4? Whenever a player makes it far into an individual league everyone takes that as an indicator that they are kicking major ass but if I set up a Ro16 group of Hyuk, Shine, Movie, Skyhigh two of those players are going to make it into the Ro8 but that is not very impressive. There's certainly a correlation between progressing in individual leagues and ranking because you're not going to do it unless you win some games, but people like to strip away the context. Games in starleagues should be treated just like any other game.

Ranking players is a difficult problem because we have very few data points and BW is a volatile game of hidden information.
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Tazza
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Korea (South)1678 Posts
August 09 2010 20:26 GMT
#22
Yeah, I agree that Jaedong and Flash should be the ONLY s-class players as of right now
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Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Canada7507 Posts
August 09 2010 22:32 GMT
#23
I always think that S-Class are players that is favorite against everyone else except against other S-Class (50-50).
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Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Calgary25977 Posts
August 09 2010 22:39 GMT
#24
I actually agree with your definition of S Class; I'm happy because it's hard to define but you did it well. I think it was really stupid to rate the progamers in your OP, because you just shifted the discussion from what S actually is to why people disagree with your subjective rankings.
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