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This week I will bring you the write-up, courtesy of TheBB being busy with that PhD of his and my 3 month holiday. However TheBB did bring some of his mathmagics and changed the entire rating system. The new system has 3 overall changes:
- No more fake games. Previously if someone went, say, 10-0, we added a fake win and loss to make the score 11-1, so that the performance rating would not be infinite. TheBB changed the algorithm to not depend on performance ratings, so now this isn't needed. This is a technical detail unlikely to make a big impact. You can expect ratings of the infrequently playing players to adjust a bit quicker.
- Offline games are weighted heavier. This means they are considered more indicative of a player's skill, and it does NOT imply that people who play mostly offline will be rated higher. (It means that people who WIN more offline than online will be rated higher.) This has sped up the Korean ratings, since they now play almost twice as many "games" as before. So KeSPA players have caught up a bit.
- Koreans are given a boosted initial rating of 1200. This is the biggest change by far. We've seen some people claim that effects due to this are actually due to #2. This is incorrect. Anyway, Koreans ARE on average rated at LEAST 200 points higher than foreigners (probably even more), so this is perfectly justified. The boost is given to any player with a Korean nationality. This also means people like Select, but that's fine. Their head start over foreigners is nulllified almost instantly since they play mostly foreigners. This is more about giving the Korean pool a head start over the foreign pool that is more in tune with reality.
This also means that the point gains in this write-up can not be directly compared with the points from last write-up, as this change also influences all earlier lists.
Now before we get into this, remember that a difference of around 250 or less means that there is no statistically significant difference between two players, but who am I kidding, you just want to rage and yell at our stats, so here we go.
The list:
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INnoVation 2008 (+8: Proleague, WCS Final, MLG Qualifiers) -
Life 1954 (No change) - Mvp 1927 (+17: WCS Final)
- Flash 1878 (+18: Proleague)
- viOLet 1859 (+14: WCS AM, )
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sOs 1852 (+54: Proleague, WCS Final) - Leenock 1851 (-14: HSC Qualifiers)
- Polt 1838 (-42: SEANA, Gigabyte, RSL, HSC Qualifiers, go4sc2, ZOTAC)
- Rain 1819 (-30: Proleague, MLG Qualifiers, )
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Curious 1803 (+121: WCS, Numericable Cup)
Honorable mentions: ForGG, LucifroN, Yonghwa, Squirtle, Soulkey, PartinG
With this new rating change, many of the top Kespa pros are now significantly better ranked, and especially INnoVation on #1 and sOs and Flash have benefitted from this change. Soulkey is probably the best player not currently in top 10, although with less than 10 points fewer than Curious, it is mostly just coincidental and as previously mentioned, doesn't mean that Soulkey is actually worse than Curious. Life has been inactive for 2 periods now (4 weeks). However with Dreamhack approaching, it will be interesting to see if the young Startale ace can't farm some of those juicy foreigner points. :-D
Moving on to our heroes from the mythical lands known as "Not Korea".
The foreigner list:
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LucifroN 1796 (-2: ATC, RSL gNations, EMS) -
Sen 1761 (+23: TESL) -
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Happy 1649 (+52: EnerJ, HSC Qualifiers, EMS) -
Scarlett 1642 (+10: ATC) - VortiX 1619 (-1: ATC)
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Jim 1599 (+31: Kungfu Cup, RSL) -
Bunny 1594 (+61: HSC Qualifiers, WCS EU, DMSL) -
Snute 1593 (-15: ATC, WCS AM, Gigabyte) -
Kas 1574 (-18: WCS EU, ESET Qualifiers, Gigabyte) -
Stephano 1563 (-20: WCS Final)
(There was a deletion of a match from Kas' history which was a walkover, which had cost him quite some points, so now he is 9th
)Honorable mentions: Welmu, NaNiwa, Nerchio, Socke, Hasuobs, TLO
LucifroN is still regarded by us as the best foreigner, with Sen taking 2nd (not 3rd) place. The foreign scene is still a good bit behind the Korean in points, and LucifroN barely didn't made it into the overall top 10. The list is a good mix of the best the foreign scene has to offer, especially if you also count the honorable mentions.
Balance report
With the end of May, our monthly balance report was also calculated.
TvZ: 54.4%
PvZ: 49.6 %
PvT: 47 %
The above numbers indicate a slight terran dominance, albeit with such a small difference, nothing can be said for certain and the difference doesn't significantly show that T>Z>P.
Before ending this with some shoutouts, I want to remind everyone, especially those asking for predictions on groups/matches/brackets on twitter that we have a predict feature which isn't that hard to use. We also have a really nice search function that can show head-to-head records, finally each player have a match history complete with filters for: Time, Opponents race, nationality, format, on/offline and game version.
Shoutouts this week to MasterOfPuppets and Shellshock who have worked hard on adding a lot of matches these last two weeks, aiding kiekaboe so he also has time to actually do other stuff. Shoutout to our new programmer xaviermarchegay who has contributed a lot already and is working on some functions to make the site more friendly to casters. As always we appreciate all the good suggestions and the nice feedback provided by this community and we hope to keep improving both the site and the overall rankings.
If you want to get in contact with us or have suggestion feel free to use:
- This thread.
- Twitter @Sc2Aligulac.
- PM. Me or TheBB.
- IRC: #aligulac on quakenet.
- E-mail to evfonn(at)gmail(dot)com.
- Issue list on GitHub.
- Pilgrimage to Zürich. TheBB will find you.
We will as always answer questions regarding the write-up in this thread. See you in two weeks.
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- Our member Sabre used to be a trackmania star and even has a few youtube compilation videos.
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- If you say #ForGGeddon three times while staring into a mirror, ForGG appears behind you, dressed like Biggie Smalls.
- Our FAQ includes a "How to pronounce aligulac".
- MasterOfPuppets biggest wish is for someone to invent a "Punch people via the internet" application.
+ Show Spoiler [The foreigner list by popular demand] +
On May 16 2013 23:42 StarVe wrote:
The real foreigner list, by popular demand.
Trust me, guys, it's totally based on some numbers.
The real foreigner list, by popular demand.
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TLO -
Naniwa - Scarlett
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Grubby - HuK
- White-Ra
- ThorZaIN
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Demuslim -
IdrA - TLO
- Dragon
Trust me, guys, it's totally based on some numbers.
