Ray, not just Random, but all the other highly skilled players who lose out because they have a few bad games, or veteran wormers who are really good allround who are trying to catch up, even for the average player I think my system would help everyone.
Like for example, If a noob plays a noob, they won't get alot of points, if an average player beats an average player, they will get a decent amount of points, if a highly skilled player beats another highly skilled player, who is say, 50th in the league, they would still get a decent amount of points, but if they lost, they wouldn't lose a ridiculous amount of points.
But I don't even know if a system like this is possible, I am no programmer lol
It's easy to programm a system like that. Things is, it already works like this. You've surely noticed that you're getting less and less points for winning bngs since your rating increases (and represents your skill at the same time). You'll get good points for beating Chicken23 (3rd best bng rating) but only few points for beating someone with 5-30 record.
I think many players still don't realize that rating REPRESENTS YOUR SKILL compared to other players. Someone's rating may not reflect certain skill precisely, that's because we don't have a league in which everybody plays same amount of games against similary skilled (or say similarly rated) players.
Imagine this: komo wins 5 games vs chicken23 and gets 40 points for each win which equals 200 points. His rating is now 1200, fine. Now I play 15 games vs players who can't bng, gain 15 points for each and my rating is 1225. Ratings are telling us I'm better bnger, but we all how true that is
You see how the amount of games affects the ratings. How can we counterfeit this? We can limit the amount of games each player can play in a season, but that's bad for the league, IMHO. We'll have to live with it.
I like the idea of 16 playoffs spots.
How about making a point system that takes into account someone's win percentage and/or their win percentage against higher ranked players which would be different than someone who had a high win % against lower ranked players.
If this is even possible?
Possible, of course, lol. I don't know, I haven't thinked much about this. One more thing popped in my mind just now: since players play different amount of games, we can compare
average points per game. (that's would propably be useful only for seasonal standings). That's just an idea, however.
One thing should be changed, IMO. With current 70 games minimun for playoffs, there need to be a lower limit of games with same player per season. Currently the limit is 15, that means someone can qualify for playoffs by playing with only 5 different players. Doesn't make much sense, IMO.
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