https://www.tus-wa.com/leagues/members-stats/NAiL/You can look at stats for every tus player, I like this feature but theres a problem with one thing in particular.
You see the bit where it says where you finish each season.
For me it says things like in season 9 I finished in in 20th place.
This is true I finished 20th in that season, but I qualified for 4th spot because of my overal rating. I had higher winning percentages than many of the people "above" me in the standings.
The top 8 players are selected for playoffs at the end of each season. If I qualified for 4th spot, then it means that my overall performance was better than 16 of the players who are placed higher than me on the standings.
Now I know that the standings display players in order of their seasonal ratings. This is not good, seeing as the true ratings of a player are the long term ones. The better you play each season, the harder it is to place "higher" in the standings. Although yes you can still get a playoff spot, you could be on the 3rd page of the standings despite having higher winning percentages than the people above you.
Think about it, if you played perfectly every season and never lost a game, then you would have an extremely high overall rating and you'd only gain 1 point for a win. You could play 200 games a season, win all of them, but only increase your rating by 200 points. You'll be able to make the playoffs in 2ND spot each season, but you'd be on the 4th or 5th page of the standings, merely because you've only been winning 1 point per game. This isnt a fair reflection of your performance.Solution:
The system needs to consider both ratings. It needs to understand that if a player is eligable for a PO place that is higher in the standings than his seasonal rating, it will place him in the higher position in the standings.
Just keep the first 8 places in the standings as PO spots once a player meets the requirements.
Look back at the example I gave of the perfect player. Once he has reached the 50 game minimum, it says "Oh, his seasonal rating is only 1050 and so although there are 127 people with higher seasonal ratings than him, he has the highest overall rating and so qualifies as 2nd best player in the season. I shall move him to the 2nd place spot in the standings.
So on my stats it wouldn't say I finished 20th for season 9, it would say I finished in 4th, which I did. Random would be shown in 2nd place now, instead of 20th, which he deserves to be as his winning percentages are higher than many above him and also has a high overall rating.
So my problem isnt that the system doesnt work, its the way information is displayed. The way it currently is, someone who wins 60 games a season and loses none will drop lower and lower in the standings as his overall rating increases over time, this doesnt accurately reflect his performance season after season.
Hope you understood all that, its quite simple really!