Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Konrad Gaertner Newsgroups: comp.games.development.programming.algorithms Subject: Re: Need help on how to properly calculate rank Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:30:41 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4E03B081.7972B0AC@tx.rr.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="E23zRFj4GwyT65YBW1kw0g"; logging-data="11926"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18dipd3iAkPEXhUNR9/1oQw" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Cancel-Lock: sha1:6JNQH1xKhSr8tvC8SZ9XZwE661w= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.games.development.programming.algorithms:16 Bill wrote: > > If I divide player wins by plays, I have a win ratio for a player. But I > think a player that has 50 wins and 100 plays should rank higher than a > player that has 1 win and 1 play even though they have a lower win > ratio. So the amount of plays should be a contributing factor to the > rank score. I then figured that the rank could be calculated by wins > divided by plays times wins but I am unsure if that would be correct or > if there is a better solution. You could rank them by total profit. If ante is 1 and there's no betting, then the profit would be wins*5 - plays. -- Konrad Gaertner - - - - - - - - - - - - email: kgaertner@tx.rr.com http://kgbooklog.livejournal.com/ "I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface." -- James Nicoll