US 1v1 Diamond Rankings - Page 6

On July 16 2010 15:15 HuskyTheHusky wrote:
This is going to make picking people for the next HDH much easier

Edit: Although all the divisions would be nice, which I know probably would take ages X_x

The page you were looking for either doesn't exist or some terrible, terrible error has occurred.

We seem to be having a little problem with our website, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then - explode.

On July 16 2010 16:52 Nihilnovi wrote:
Martinni, I don't know which language you are using to scrap this data, but I have found a way to get every diamond division automatically.

On every profile page there is this link in the source that's static across all profiles:
<div class="spotlight-tile tile-protoss" onclick="Core.goTo('367/');">

(except for the protoss part)

Every page that holds that info follows the same pattern as well:
http://beta-us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/96087/1/ladder/ for example

in this case, http://beta-us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/96087/1/ladder/367/ is the division

so what you do is fopen http://beta-us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/<incremental loop value>/1/ladder/
and check for error code in the html of their error page for a profile, if a profile detected then regexp the core.goto('int') val and parse the ladder page for data.

Then you just set the operation on a cron job/automated task and let it fly.
I could write this up but atm im busy with work(i work as a php developer) and preparing for the Inferno Online cup =)

Best of luck and gj!

On July 16 2010 23:28 DTown wrote:
Is it just me or should the rankings be sorted by Win/Loss ratio? Who has the most points seems kind of weak. I know Blizzard thinks that is how people should be ranked, but shouldn't we have a higher standard? Just because someone plays more games and grinds through more hours of SC with a 50% win rate doesn't necessarily make them better than someone who doesn't play as much but wins more games with a 70% win rate.

On July 16 2010 23:28 DTown wrote:
Is it just me or should the rankings be sorted by Win/Loss ratio? Who has the most points seems kind of weak. I know Blizzard thinks that is how people should be ranked, but shouldn't we have a higher standard? Just because someone plays more games and grinds through more hours of SC with a 50% win rate doesn't necessarily make them better than someone who doesn't play as much but wins more games with a 70% win rate.

On July 16 2010 23:43 xzidez wrote:



It is just you. This is how "all" ranking system works. What happens If say dimaga and whitera plays 300 games. Ofc they dont get 100%. Then you come and play 10-0. Do you think you should be first ranked ?

Since you lose points if you lose you wont get past 1000 rating if you don't deserve it, no matter how much you grind the game. Eventually you might become better and rise above 1000 rating. But then you are that good, no matter how bad your % are.

On July 16 2010 23:54 REM.ca wrote:
Just found this other thread: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=126767

Looks like someone else was already doing this for you Martini. Maybe that'll save you some grief with the updating.