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Regarding the Tournament ranking. Yesterday, LuckyF contacted me, and we had a detailed discussion about all the pros and cons. So:
1. Arguments in favor.
Why I wanted to have a Tournament ranking and use it. First, I didn't like the regular ranking because:
(a) of the abuse, when someone plays against weak opponents and diligently increases their score.
(b) some players haven't updated it for a long time and don't post reports.
And the advantage of the Tournament ranking is:
(c) in tournaments, everything is very serious; as a rule, everyone tries to show their maximum potential (and those who don't try also provide valuable information). All reports are posted, everything is as fair as possible, and therefore more indicative.
But it turned out that it's not that simple - there are also
2. Arguments against:
(a) the distance. In the Tournament ranking, it's shorter, and a sudden win streak or loss streak leads to significant distortions.
But the decisive argument was the following:
(b) the tournaments themselves sometimes have very little to do with skill.
There were OFB tournaments where you had to play skirmishes, Panic, and Anarchy; there was Outlaw; there are tournaments with a non-standard pool of heroes, where you simply don't have time to figure it out; there were OZV tournaments where you had to play with a full random hero selection; there are Favorite Heroes tournaments, where a player may be doomed to play with a weak Castle "out of love"; there is Game of Thrones, where a player plays with the Castle that they get in the draft, and this, again, is not compensated by trading for a city;
that is, tournaments have a very significant element of fun and randomness, it's absurd to deny it, and it's impossible to trace its influence on the final score.
And then the only thing that levels out all this variance is the distance, which (see the previous point) is actually in favor of the overall ranking.
In general, the overall ranking will be used to form the brackets. Abuse it to your heart's content.
1. Arguments in favor.
Why I wanted to have a Tournament ranking and use it. First, I didn't like the regular ranking because:
(a) of the abuse, when someone plays against weak opponents and diligently increases their score.
(b) some players haven't updated it for a long time and don't post reports.
And the advantage of the Tournament ranking is:
(c) in tournaments, everything is very serious; as a rule, everyone tries to show their maximum potential (and those who don't try also provide valuable information). All reports are posted, everything is as fair as possible, and therefore more indicative.
But it turned out that it's not that simple - there are also
2. Arguments against:
(a) the distance. In the Tournament ranking, it's shorter, and a sudden win streak or loss streak leads to significant distortions.
But the decisive argument was the following:
(b) the tournaments themselves sometimes have very little to do with skill.
There were OFB tournaments where you had to play skirmishes, Panic, and Anarchy; there was Outlaw; there are tournaments with a non-standard pool of heroes, where you simply don't have time to figure it out; there were OZV tournaments where you had to play with a full random hero selection; there are Favorite Heroes tournaments, where a player may be doomed to play with a weak Castle "out of love"; there is Game of Thrones, where a player plays with the Castle that they get in the draft, and this, again, is not compensated by trading for a city;
that is, tournaments have a very significant element of fun and randomness, it's absurd to deny it, and it's impossible to trace its influence on the final score.
And then the only thing that levels out all this variance is the distance, which (see the previous point) is actually in favor of the overall ranking.
In general, the overall ranking will be used to form the brackets. Abuse it to your heart's content.