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emanresU
Profile Joined November 2012
Germany393 Posts
June 27 2013 11:22 GMT
#21
Snute over scarlett? I don't know.
There is nothing more cool than being proud of the things you love. -Sean "Day[9]" Plott
Grovbolle
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Denmark3813 Posts
June 27 2013 11:53 GMT
#22
On June 27 2013 20:22 emanresU wrote:
Snute over scarlett? I don't know.

Less than 10 points difference. Which means you can't say for certain that one player is better than the other.
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iMrising
Profile Blog Joined March 2012
United States1099 Posts
June 27 2013 15:09 GMT
#23
You guys really deserve more recognition. Keep up the good work!
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shadymmj
Profile Joined June 2010
1906 Posts
June 27 2013 15:31 GMT
#24
your list is absurd, bogus drops a game here and there in proleague but cleans house in OSL = -14
life gets beaten by a foreigner and thrown out of OSL = -16
flash 2-0 OSL = no change

??????
There is no such thing is "e-sports". There is Brood War, and then there is crap for nerds.
a3den
Profile Joined April 2012
704 Posts
June 27 2013 15:57 GMT
#25
On June 28 2013 00:31 shadymmj wrote:
your list is absurd, bogus drops a game here and there in proleague but cleans house in OSL = -14
life gets beaten by a foreigner and thrown out of OSL = -16
flash 2-0 OSL = no change

??????


It's just science man. Deal with it 8)
MasterOfPuppets
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Romania6942 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-06-27 16:18:45
June 27 2013 16:17 GMT
#26
On June 27 2013 20:22 emanresU wrote:
Snute over scarlett? I don't know.


The Acer Teamstory Cup sold me on it.

On June 28 2013 00:31 shadymmj wrote:
your list is absurd, bogus drops a game here and there in proleague but cleans house in OSL = -14
life gets beaten by a foreigner and thrown out of OSL = -16
flash 2-0 OSL = no change

??????


Losing to a player rated much lower is far more impactful than beating a player rated much lower than you. For better or for worse, a fair amount of ProLeague players have rather low ratings, meanwhile FlaSh and Bogus are both Top 5 players... of course "dropping a game here and there" means much more than beating players that for all intents and purposes are rated as far inferior.

Also, as the post above says, this is algorithm-based, not a power rank. If you think you can come up with a better skill rating algorithm that also can also facilitate predicting the outcome of matches with reasonable accuracy, then by all means knock yourself out.
"my shaft scares me too" - strenx 2014
TheBB
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Switzerland5133 Posts
June 27 2013 16:20 GMT
#27
On June 28 2013 00:31 shadymmj wrote:
your list is absurd, bogus drops a game here and there in proleague but cleans house in OSL = -14
life gets beaten by a foreigner and thrown out of OSL = -16
flash 2-0 OSL = no change

This is the least subtle selective argument I've seen in a good while, but I'll bite.

Life went 28-9. His being beaten by a foreigner and thrown out of OSL constitutes a puny five of those games (1-4), in the remaining 32 he went 27-5. In fact, one can assume it's only due to his ridiculous rating that he lost any points at all.

Flash and Innovation are interesting. They both went 2-0 in OSL, but 2-2 in Proleague, so a 4-2 score overall. This 66% winrate corresponds to about a 400 point rating gap. So if you go 66% in a period, your rating will adjust towards the mean of your opponents + 400. As it happens, Flash faced opposition at 1475, so he performed at about 1875 in this period. Since his rating is 1879, that's a miniscule change. On the other hand, Innovation faced slightly worse opposition, at 1341, so he only performed at 1741 level. On the other hand, his rating was higher than Flash's, at 2010, so yes, he will lose points.

In short, Innovation performed equally as well as Flash did against worse opposition and with higher expectations. So yeah, of course he will lose more.
http://aligulac.com || Barcraft Switzerland! || Zerg best race. || Stats-poster extraordinaire.
shadymmj
Profile Joined June 2010
1906 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-06-27 16:37:01
June 27 2013 16:30 GMT
#28
On June 28 2013 01:20 TheBB wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 28 2013 00:31 shadymmj wrote:
your list is absurd, bogus drops a game here and there in proleague but cleans house in OSL = -14
life gets beaten by a foreigner and thrown out of OSL = -16
flash 2-0 OSL = no change

This is the least subtle selective argument I've seen in a good while, but I'll bite.

Life went 28-9. His being beaten by a foreigner and thrown out of OSL constitutes a puny five of those games (1-4), in the remaining 32 he went 27-5. In fact, one can assume it's only due to his ridiculous rating that he lost any points at all.

Flash and Innovation are interesting. They both went 2-0 in OSL, but 2-2 in Proleague, so a 4-2 score overall. This 66% winrate corresponds to about a 400 point rating gap. So if you go 66% in a period, your rating will adjust towards the mean of your opponents + 400. As it happens, Flash faced opposition at 1475, so he performed at about 1875 in this period. Since his rating is 1879, that's a miniscule change. On the other hand, Innovation faced slightly worse opposition, at 1341, so he only performed at 1741 level. On the other hand, his rating was higher than Flash's, at 2010, so yes, he will lose points.

In short, Innovation performed equally as well as Flash did against worse opposition and with higher expectations. So yeah, of course he will lose more.


but life played foreigners...the equivalent of beating a cripple at wrestling

idk about you, but there is almost universal agreement here that life is spiraling downwards, while bogus remains firmly at #1, and flash is only getting better. your statistics do not correlate with the general sentiment. which is a misrepresentation, the former or the latter?

edit: i see your problem. you somehow rank players like tod and pig at 1300-1400, while the top koreans at 1900. imo if tod were a "1400" then bogus, SK etc. would be something like a "10000" in comparison.
There is no such thing is "e-sports". There is Brood War, and then there is crap for nerds.
MasterOfPuppets
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Romania6942 Posts
June 27 2013 16:35 GMT
#29
On June 28 2013 01:30 shadymmj wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 28 2013 01:20 TheBB wrote:
On June 28 2013 00:31 shadymmj wrote:
your list is absurd, bogus drops a game here and there in proleague but cleans house in OSL = -14
life gets beaten by a foreigner and thrown out of OSL = -16
flash 2-0 OSL = no change

This is the least subtle selective argument I've seen in a good while, but I'll bite.

Life went 28-9. His being beaten by a foreigner and thrown out of OSL constitutes a puny five of those games (1-4), in the remaining 32 he went 27-5. In fact, one can assume it's only due to his ridiculous rating that he lost any points at all.

Flash and Innovation are interesting. They both went 2-0 in OSL, but 2-2 in Proleague, so a 4-2 score overall. This 66% winrate corresponds to about a 400 point rating gap. So if you go 66% in a period, your rating will adjust towards the mean of your opponents + 400. As it happens, Flash faced opposition at 1475, so he performed at about 1875 in this period. Since his rating is 1879, that's a miniscule change. On the other hand, Innovation faced slightly worse opposition, at 1341, so he only performed at 1741 level. On the other hand, his rating was higher than Flash's, at 2010, so yes, he will lose points.

In short, Innovation performed equally as well as Flash did against worse opposition and with higher expectations. So yeah, of course he will lose more.


but life played foreigners...the equivalent of beating a cripple at wrestling

idk about you, but there is almost universal agreement here that life is spiraling downwards, while bogus remains firmly at #1, and flash is only getting better. your statistics do not correlate with the general sentiment. which is a misrepresentation, the former or the latter?


Well, one is affected by emotion, subjective perception of player strength and cherry picking results. The other is not. Easy call.
"my shaft scares me too" - strenx 2014
TheBB
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Switzerland5133 Posts
June 27 2013 17:00 GMT
#30
On June 28 2013 01:30 shadymmj wrote:
but life played foreigners...the equivalent of beating a cripple at wrestling

idk about you, but there is almost universal agreement here that life is spiraling downwards, while bogus remains firmly at #1, and flash is only getting better. your statistics do not correlate with the general sentiment. which is a misrepresentation, the former or the latter?

edit: i see your problem. you somehow rank players like tod and pig at 1300-1400, while the top koreans at 1900. imo if tod were a "1400" then bogus, SK etc. would be something like a "10000" in comparison.

He did play foreigners, and his opponents also have a lower mean rating than those of Flash and Bogus. We can argue until the cows come home if it's as low as it should be. In fact, it's not, but it's easily closer now than it was before I made the last update, so this sentiment of yours seems to me a little late.

I'm not particularly concerned with the general sentiment. It has its own staggering problems (such as overevaluating a certain Life vs Sjow series).

By claiming ToD at 1400 and Innovation at 10000 you are effectively saying that that ToD has to play 5948649 games against Innovation (yeah that's almost six million) before he has a legitimate chance of winning only one of them. This seems extremely out of proportion, and is a good example of why I don't put much stock in people's general opinions when they try to quantify things.

By my personal estimate the mean Korean should be rated about 400-500 points higher than the mean foreigner. Right now this number is at about 250 or so, so you're off by about 7750 I think.
http://aligulac.com || Barcraft Switzerland! || Zerg best race. || Stats-poster extraordinaire.
EFermi
Profile Joined May 2011
United States165 Posts
June 27 2013 19:15 GMT
#31
This looks neat but I can't agree with the rankings. None of the foreigners should be anywhere near, not the top 10 list, the top 30 or even 50 list. Koreans who left WCS Kr should also be relatively low on the list.
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Neemi
Profile Joined August 2012
Netherlands656 Posts
June 27 2013 22:17 GMT
#32
On June 28 2013 02:00 TheBB wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 28 2013 01:30 shadymmj wrote:
but life played foreigners...the equivalent of beating a cripple at wrestling

idk about you, but there is almost universal agreement here that life is spiraling downwards, while bogus remains firmly at #1, and flash is only getting better. your statistics do not correlate with the general sentiment. which is a misrepresentation, the former or the latter?

edit: i see your problem. you somehow rank players like tod and pig at 1300-1400, while the top koreans at 1900. imo if tod were a "1400" then bogus, SK etc. would be something like a "10000" in comparison.

He did play foreigners, and his opponents also have a lower mean rating than those of Flash and Bogus. We can argue until the cows come home if it's as low as it should be. In fact, it's not, but it's easily closer now than it was before I made the last update, so this sentiment of yours seems to me a little late.

I'm not particularly concerned with the general sentiment. It has its own staggering problems (such as overevaluating a certain Life vs Sjow series).

By claiming ToD at 1400 and Innovation at 10000 you are effectively saying that that ToD has to play 5948649 games against Innovation (yeah that's almost six million) before he has a legitimate chance of winning only one of them. This seems extremely out of proportion, and is a good example of why I don't put much stock in people's general opinions when they try to quantify things.

By my personal estimate the mean Korean should be rated about 400-500 points higher than the mean foreigner. Right now this number is at about 250 or so, so you're off by about 7750 I think.


I love how you actually back up your arguments with numbers and for putting so much time into all of this. Much appreciated.
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a3den
Profile Joined April 2012
704 Posts
June 29 2013 13:03 GMT
#33
Dear aligulac nerd ballers, got a 500: Internal Server Error when I try to access the ranking.
Zealously
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
East Gorteau22261 Posts
June 29 2013 13:15 GMT
#34
On June 28 2013 01:30 shadymmj wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 28 2013 01:20 TheBB wrote:
On June 28 2013 00:31 shadymmj wrote:
your list is absurd, bogus drops a game here and there in proleague but cleans house in OSL = -14
life gets beaten by a foreigner and thrown out of OSL = -16
flash 2-0 OSL = no change

This is the least subtle selective argument I've seen in a good while, but I'll bite.

Life went 28-9. His being beaten by a foreigner and thrown out of OSL constitutes a puny five of those games (1-4), in the remaining 32 he went 27-5. In fact, one can assume it's only due to his ridiculous rating that he lost any points at all.

Flash and Innovation are interesting. They both went 2-0 in OSL, but 2-2 in Proleague, so a 4-2 score overall. This 66% winrate corresponds to about a 400 point rating gap. So if you go 66% in a period, your rating will adjust towards the mean of your opponents + 400. As it happens, Flash faced opposition at 1475, so he performed at about 1875 in this period. Since his rating is 1879, that's a miniscule change. On the other hand, Innovation faced slightly worse opposition, at 1341, so he only performed at 1741 level. On the other hand, his rating was higher than Flash's, at 2010, so yes, he will lose points.

In short, Innovation performed equally as well as Flash did against worse opposition and with higher expectations. So yeah, of course he will lose more.


but life played foreigners...the equivalent of beating a cripple at wrestling

idk about you, but there is almost universal agreement here that life is spiraling downwards, while bogus remains firmly at #1, and flash is only getting better. your statistics do not correlate with the general sentiment. which is a misrepresentation, the former or the latter?

edit: i see your problem. you somehow rank players like tod and pig at 1300-1400, while the top koreans at 1900. imo if tod were a "1400" then bogus, SK etc. would be something like a "10000" in comparison.

Do you understand the math behind Aligulac's ratings? It certainly seems like you don't, which also means you shouldn't make comments like that.
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TheBB
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Switzerland5133 Posts
June 29 2013 13:18 GMT
#35
On June 29 2013 22:03 a3den wrote:
Dear aligulac nerd ballers, got a 500: Internal Server Error when I try to access the ranking.

Ah, sorry about that. It's good now.
http://aligulac.com || Barcraft Switzerland! || Zerg best race. || Stats-poster extraordinaire.
VyingsP
Profile Joined December 2011
France174 Posts
June 29 2013 13:29 GMT
#36
Just wondering : isn't this a bug ?
Corrections of my bad english are much welcome
Silvanel
Profile Blog Joined March 2003
Poland4753 Posts
June 29 2013 13:49 GMT
#37
Its lovely when people argue with something they dont understand...but but Your statiscs hurt my feelings. Tasty!
Pathetic Greta hater.
TheBB
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Switzerland5133 Posts
June 29 2013 13:52 GMT
#38
On June 29 2013 22:29 VyingsP wrote:
Just wondering : isn't this a bug ?

Not a bug as such, just an effect of too high sensitivity in the starting phases. I'll fix it shortly.
http://aligulac.com || Barcraft Switzerland! || Zerg best race. || Stats-poster extraordinaire.
VyingsP
Profile Joined December 2011
France174 Posts
June 29 2013 14:02 GMT
#39
On June 29 2013 22:52 TheBB wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 29 2013 22:29 VyingsP wrote:
Just wondering : isn't this a bug ?

Not a bug as such, just an effect of too high sensitivity in the starting phases. I'll fix it shortly.


Thanks for the answer ! Keep up with the good work, aligulac is awesome.
Corrections of my bad english are much welcome
p14c
Profile Joined May 2010
Vatican City State431 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-06-29 14:15:38
June 29 2013 14:11 GMT
#40
Something is really wrong with the ratings..You can't have top 10 foreigners. It's just weird. Besides MVP the other players qualified from WCS EU and AM got stomped in the WCS finals. And even MVP in the 3rd place its quite high. Maybe in time the ratings will normalize but aligulac should have give Code S players much better rattings then the ones from EU or AM. Also the Dreamhack guys won too many points. There were almost no code S players at Dreamhack.
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