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Glicko ranking bugs

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Hi all,

Please report any BUGs in the glicko system here. ie missing coaches/races, wrong ranking for last month etc.

https://www.thenaf.net/rankings/glicko-rankings/

Please put general feedback/questions in the announcement thread below- thanks!

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Hi Nick,

thanks for support! I realized that filtering race for "Chaos" is far from ideal as it also produces Chaos Dawrfs and Chaos Pact. Maybe it's time to change standrad chaos to "Chaos Chosen"

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Yes.This is a good point.

Initially we were using a "selectbox", but some people had issues loading the options from the server.

Chaos chosen works well. Pro Elves would distinguish them from other elves too. But what about Dwarfs?

ie I need a name that stops "Chaos dwarfs" matching...

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„The only real dwarfs“?

Or go for „Chaos dwarfs“ and „dwarves“ ?

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First thing that crosses my mind would be to change full race name for a three letter abbreviation like DWa and CDW

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In the next update I'm planning to do some renaming to help filtering:

Main intention is to split on a single race as soon as user starts typing, but still use clear labels

Chaos > Chaos Chosen (type chosen)
Chaos Dwarves > Chaos Dwarves (type chaos d)
Dwarves > Dwarf (type Dwarf)
Chaos Pact > Chaos Pact (type pact)

Elves > Elven Union (type elven)

Let me now anything I have screwed up!

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mubo wrote:Chaos Dwarves > Chaos Dwarves (type chaos d)
Thanks Nick!

In GW naming convention it should be Chaos Dwarfs though. See below.
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Cool- thanks.

I need some way of making it that in a field search "Dwarf" doesn't appear in "Chaos Dwarf". Using Chaos Dwarves / Dwarf as labels is how I thought about handling it.

Dwarves / Chaos Dwarf?

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Not sure you can achieve that because of the Chaos problem you mentioned above. You can't expect users wanting to find Chaos Pact (Renegades now btw) with a search field to know that typing the word Chaos will not return them as a result.

Also changing naming conventions is a naughty no-no IMO. :wink:

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Love the Glickos. Thanks to Nick for all your efforts.

A query rather than a bug (please move / address elsewhere as approp)... but I wonder if there could be any functionality to see your change month-by-month? Or even to see what your ranking was the previous month and compare. The calculation is more complicated than Elo and it's a bit hard to make sense of it / keep track of it other than just seeing your place in the list.

e.g. I was in 2nd spot and went 3/3/0 at Waterbowl last month. I wondered whether I would go down, or up, but have stayed level. Cool! But not sure quite how that happened. Did I go up a little or down a little? Suppose it would be even more cool to see that too.

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Pipey wrote:Love the Glickos. Thanks to Nick for all your efforts.

A query rather than a bug (please move / address elsewhere as approp)... but I wonder if there could be any functionality to see your change month-by-month? Or even to see what your ranking was the previous month and compare. The calculation is more complicated than Elo and it's a bit hard to make sense of it / keep track of it other than just seeing your place in the list.

e.g. I was in 2nd spot and went 3/3/0 at Waterbowl last month. I wondered whether I would go down, or up, but have stayed level. Cool! But not sure quite how that happened. Did I go up a little or down a little? Suppose it would be even more cool to see that too.
This is a presentation issue. I have all the data- it's just finding somebody to write the code and present it in a meaningful way.

FYI you have gone from:
(1862.241, 67.085)

to
(1863.518, 64.404)

Schlice did something a while ago that we should try to revisit, it's just time.

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Hi,
I only seem to have 19 glicko rankings instead of 26 - I notice that there are 24,999 rows of data in the database, are other rows cut off after that?
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Joemanji wrote:Not sure you can achieve that because of the Chaos problem you mentioned above. You can't expect users wanting to find Chaos Pact (Renegades now btw) with a search field to know that typing the word Chaos will not return them as a result.

Also changing naming conventions is a naughty no-no IMO. :wink:
I think all the chaos are sorted, as it's only an issue hen the full name of the race is contained in the name of another race. Chaos > Chaos Chosen fixes this, as does Elves > Elven Union.

Dwarfs > ??? Dwarvern Kingdoms? Not a real suggestion, but you get the idea.

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sann0638 wrote:Hi,
I only seem to have 19 glicko rankings instead of 26 - I notice that there are 24,999 rows of data in the database, are other rows cut off after that?
Ta,
Mike
Exactly. Due to performance issues from wordpress I cut off at 25k. There is a large tail of ranks.

In the future we hope to use a view of a SQL database, which should be much more efficient. This takes development time though.

I don't want to encourage this... but in csv:

Code: Select all

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"677 (686)","86 (87)","https://member.thenaf.net/index.php?module=NAF&type=tournamentinfo&uid=8866||sann0638",8866,"Undead","Scotland","1693.7","91.5","1465.0"
"905 (914)","61 (64)","https://member.thenaf.net/index.php?module=NAF&type=tournamentinfo&uid=8866||sann0638",8866,"Necromantic","Scotland","1616.3","72.4","1435.4"
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Pipey wrote:Love the Glickos. Thanks to Nick for all your efforts.
A query rather than a bug (please move / address elsewhere as approp)... but I wonder if there could be any functionality to see your change month-by-month?
Horizontal space is at a premium, but I could add rating change instead of race rank?

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