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Should we change the rating system, or leave it as it is?

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Postby ccatman on Fri Oct 08, 2010 8:37 pm

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ccatman wrote:actually no it doesnt what dont you get about this rating system being flawed?
first of all your trying to fix something that has no solution no matter what you do your rating will ALWAYS be dependent on the opinions of everyone that means the 3.0 rated people now are still going to give you bad ratings no matter what why are you wasting so much time trying to fix something that will never be solved? give up im trying to save people time by making them realize what you are trying to do but you ignore me with your stubborness to see what im saying and your so set on your always right


You're right, of course the rating system is always dependent on peoples' opinions - that's the point, of course. You and jrh have claimed that it is important to ensure that you don't get a biased rating because you only play certain types of people, and I assert that this is precisely the problem that the proposed system fixes. There's nothing I or anyone can do about the inherent problem that some people always give 5s and some people always complain and give terrible ratings. What we can do is make all the non-ratings equal to zero so that the ratings average out at zero. In the current system, if you get a bunch of ratings that are biased or don't make sense given a normal distribution, you're stuck with that rating. In the new system, your score will become closer to the mean because most likely a lot of your opponents didn't rate you (and thus didn't see you as particularly extraordinary), and so actually you're protected from that.


and come on seriously people who actually deserve 5.0 ratings right now will not get it ever because with this new system you are making it imposible to get the highest rating posible because there will ALWAYS be people who never rate its just unfair and stupid to some of the people who actually care about the ratings


No one deserves a perfect rating. The people who deserve high ratings will get it, in the new system. The people who don't, i.e. most people, will not.

You can leave ratings for 91 members!

i have that message sitting there right now i've had it up to 200 people and i can tell you that those 200 people dont all deserve that 0 star rating


Then rate them. If you choose not to rate them, you're saying they're not out of the ordinary enough to justify the two seconds it takes to go to the ratings page and fill it out. In what way do they not deserve to be rated average by you?



did you ever think i didnt pay attention to how they played?that i didnt watch every single move they made on every single turn or maybe if i were to rate someone i would want to take more than 2 seconds to do it or god forbid i just dont feel like it! drop the only ordinary people wont be rated thing because its bs
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Re: Normalize Player Ratings (Average = 0) [Stickied ~ TFO]

Postby TheForgivenOne on Fri Oct 08, 2010 8:38 pm

I feel as if this is turning into a Merry-go-round people.
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Postby jrh_cardinal on Fri Oct 08, 2010 8:53 pm

TheForgivenOne wrote:I feel as if this is turning into a Merry-go-round people.

yes, we're telling him why his same arguments are incorrect, then he spits them back out 5 posts later
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Postby squishyg on Fri Oct 08, 2010 8:55 pm

if we are to have a ratings system at all, let it reflect something. i like the idea of people automatically getting an average rating if no other one is left. i vote for average being 3, because that's what its supposed to be already. i don't care for the negative numbers idea; if we're going to be leaving ratings, it should be as constructive criticism.
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Re: Normalize Player Ratings (Average = 0) [Stickied ~ TFO]

Postby Metsfanmax on Fri Oct 08, 2010 9:02 pm

jrh_cardinal wrote:
TheForgivenOne wrote:I feel as if this is turning into a Merry-go-round people.

yes, we're telling him why his same arguments are incorrect, then he spits them back out 5 posts later


"You" aren't doing anything. The only thing you've done recently is make a vague statement about how I never gave you a reason, and then when I correctly pointed out that I did give you a reason, you fell silent. Please don't take part in this debate if the only thing you're going to do is snipe at me and not engage my arguments.
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Postby ccatman on Fri Oct 08, 2010 9:04 pm

squishyg wrote:if we are to have a ratings system at all, let it reflect something. i like the idea of people automatically getting an average rating if no other one is left. i vote for average being 3, because that's what its supposed to be already. i don't care for the negative numbers idea; if we're going to be leaving ratings, it should be as constructive criticism.

but its an agreed opinion by the majority of people that 4.7 is the average rating now

so ...whats wrong with that? i've already explained why no ratings resulting in the average rating is a bad idea im not gonna say it again even though i will because i know someone is going to make me ....
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Postby Metsfanmax on Fri Oct 08, 2010 9:11 pm

ccatman wrote:but its an agreed opinion by the majority of people that 4.7 is the average rating now


It's not an opinion, it's a fact.

so ...whats wrong with that? i've already explained why no ratings resulting in the average rating is a bad idea im not gonna say it again even though i will because i know someone is going to make me ....


Here are the actual reasons you gave why it's a bad idea, and here are the refutations (some of which you've not even responded to):

ccatman wrote:and come on seriously people who actually deserve 5.0 ratings right now will not get it ever because with this new system you are making it imposible to get the highest rating posible because there will ALWAYS be people who never rate its just unfair and stupid to some of the people who actually care about the ratings


Refutation: No one deserves a 5.0 rating. Some people do deserve a high rating because they are truly outstanding, and their ratings will reflect that. Most other people, who are more or less average, will have an average rating. Makes sense to me.

ccatman wrote:i have that message sitting there right now i've had it up to 200 people and i can tell you that those 200 people dont all deserve that 0 star rating


Refutation: You rate people who you see as above or below average. If you choose not to rate a person, it implies that you think that they're average. The only other explanation is that you're too lazy to rate them - but then how can you claim you actually care about the ratings system?

ccatman wrote:right now that can only effect your rating about .1-.2 difference and it does effect some people but theres nothing that can be done about that with the new system the scaling will be much different and it will become more dependent on the people you play


Refutation: Entirely incorrect. In the new system, your rating is a lot less dependent on the people you play, because there will be a bunch of zeros averaging out any biased or weird ratings you receive.
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Postby Arama86n on Fri Oct 08, 2010 9:16 pm

If a player does not wish to leave a rating for his opponents after a match, it counts as a 0 or "average" rating.

This is what "buys" my vote. It should be so that every time a game a game is completed and no judgement is made a 3.0 rating should be given for that game, indtead of it being skipped. it would create a much fairer system. if this simple rule was implemented no frther change would be necessary,
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Postby ccatman on Fri Oct 08, 2010 9:17 pm

its almost like your not reading anything im saying
why are you so set on the only posible reason for not rating someone is because they are an average player? because i have told you over and over again that that is bs and not true at all
YOUR RATING IS ALWAYS DEPENDENT ON WHO YOU PLAY GET OVER IT
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Postby Metsfanmax on Fri Oct 08, 2010 9:22 pm

ccatman wrote:its almost like your not reading anything im saying
why are you so set on the only posible reason for not rating someone is because they are an average player? because i have told you over and over again that that is bs and not true at all


I promise you I'm reading what you're saying, but this last statement implies that you aren't reading what I am saying. Please read this part of my post again:

Metsfanmax wrote:Refutation: You rate people who you see as above or below average. If you choose not to rate a person, it implies that you think that they're average. The only other explanation is that you're too lazy to rate them - but then how can you claim you actually care about the ratings system?
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Postby ccatman on Fri Oct 08, 2010 9:26 pm

Metsfanmax wrote:
ccatman wrote:its almost like your not reading anything im saying
why are you so set on the only posible reason for not rating someone is because they are an average player? because i have told you over and over again that that is bs and not true at all


I promise you I'm reading what you're saying, but this last statement implies that you aren't reading what I am saying. Please read this part of my post again:

Metsfanmax wrote:Refutation: You rate people who you see as above or below average. If you choose not to rate a person, it implies that you think that they're average. The only other explanation is that you're too lazy to rate them - but then how can you claim you actually care about the ratings system?

yes once again and thank you for this you are only prooving me correct
do you realize how many lazy people there are? there are MANY people like me who will not rate because they just dont feel like it and because of that having those ratings go to 0 is unfair
please read more clearly.....you need to understand what the majority thinks
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Postby Metsfanmax on Fri Oct 08, 2010 9:32 pm

ccatman wrote:yes once again and thank you for this you are only prooving me correct
do you realize how many lazy people there are? there are MANY people like me who will not rate because they just dont feel like it and because of that having those ratings go to 0 is unfair
please read more clearly.....you need to understand what the majority thinks


I'm trying to make a point here, that you don't seem to be getting. If you don't care enough about the ratings system to take the time to give people ratings when they deserve them, then you can't legitimately be upset when that system changes to something that reflects your lack of care. This system is designed to fix precisely this problem. If people are too lazy to rate, then they obviously don't care about the quality of the ratings system that much, and thus they shouldn't complain when their no-rates are turned into zeros. However, it is still true in any event that the extraordinary people will be rated as such, so the good players will still come out. All you do by failing to rank the players closer to the middle is make it harder to get away from zero. I would hope that this system would force you to rate more, because you clearly don't want that to happen.

Your whole argument is a facade. If you claim that you care about the quality of the ratings but aren't willing to do your part to make the system better by giving good ratings to your opponents, then you're lying to yourself and everyone else.
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Postby ccatman on Fri Oct 08, 2010 9:37 pm

Metsfanmax wrote:
ccatman wrote:yes once again and thank you for this you are only prooving me correct
do you realize how many lazy people there are? there are MANY people like me who will not rate because they just dont feel like it and because of that having those ratings go to 0 is unfair
please read more clearly.....you need to understand what the majority thinks


I'm trying to make a point here, that you don't seem to be getting. If you don't care enough about the ratings system to take the time to give people ratings when they deserve them, then you can't legitimately be upset when that system changes to something that reflects your lack of care. This system is designed to fix precisely this problem. If people are too lazy to rate, then they obviously don't care about the quality of the ratings system that much, and thus they shouldn't complain when their no-rates are turned into zeros. However, it is still true in any event that the extraordinary people will be rated as such, so the good players will still come out. All you do by failing to rank the players closer to the middle is make it harder to get away from zero. I would hope that this system would force you to rate more, because you clearly don't want that to happen.

Your whole argument is a facade. If you claim that you care about the quality of the ratings but aren't willing to do your part to make the system better by giving good ratings to your opponents, then you're lying to yourself and everyone else.

still need glasses i see....
ok i do care about my own rating very much and that it is not garbage i do not care about other peoples ratings in any way!
now all these lazy people are taking MY rating down and i dont like it simple as that and you know im still not gonna give out ratings because like i said i do not care about other peoples ratings maybe if a friend asks i will give it but if a random person asks i dont care its not my rating
and like i said there are many people who are like this and it creates a problem
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Postby Metsfanmax on Fri Oct 08, 2010 9:41 pm

ccatman wrote:still need glasses i see....
ok i do care about my own rating very much and that it is not garbage i do not care about other peoples ratings in any way!
now all these lazy people are taking MY rating down and i dont like it simple as that and you know im still not gonna give out ratings because like i said i do not care about other peoples ratings maybe if a friend asks i will give it but if a random person asks i dont care its not my rating
and like i said there are many people who are like this and it creates a problem


I'm not even going to continue arguing with you. This makes it abundantly clear that you don't care about the ratings system as a whole - you only want to protect your average 4.7 rating from turning into an average 0 rating (?). I hope that there aren't many others like you, but if there are, at least this system will help to fix some of those issues.
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Postby ccatman on Fri Oct 08, 2010 9:43 pm

Metsfanmax wrote:
ccatman wrote:still need glasses i see....
ok i do care about my own rating very much and that it is not garbage i do not care about other peoples ratings in any way!
now all these lazy people are taking MY rating down and i dont like it simple as that and you know im still not gonna give out ratings because like i said i do not care about other peoples ratings maybe if a friend asks i will give it but if a random person asks i dont care its not my rating
and like i said there are many people who are like this and it creates a problem


I'm not even going to continue arguing with you. This makes it abundantly clear that you don't care about the ratings system as a whole - you only want to protect your average 4.7 rating from turning into an average 0 rating (?). I hope that there aren't many others like you, but if there are, at least this system will help to fix some of those issues.

sorry to tell you that yes there are and once again sorry to tell you 0 will not become the new average rating if you want it to be or not its as simple as that get it through your thick head
and im not trying to protect my 4.7 rating im trying to protect the mods from hell because this will create more problems for them if they were to add this system
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Postby Metsfanmax on Fri Oct 08, 2010 9:58 pm

ccatman wrote:sorry to tell you that yes there are and once again sorry to tell you 0 will not become the new average rating if you want it to be or not its as simple as that get it through your thick head


Okay, this I have to respond to. Basic math implies that 0 will be the new average rating, at the very most to within plus or minus 0.1. I did the math earlier on in the thread. Thick head or not, I do understand mathematics fairly well, and this isn't even a piece of math that requires much intelligence. Unless the new system causes people to rate about 10 times higher than the current rate of, oh I don't know, 5%, 0 will be the new average. Notice that no one else has made the argument you're making, and there's a reason...
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Postby ccatman on Fri Oct 08, 2010 10:05 pm

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ccatman wrote:sorry to tell you that yes there are and once again sorry to tell you 0 will not become the new average rating if you want it to be or not its as simple as that get it through your thick head


Okay, this I have to respond to. Basic math implies that 0 will be the new average rating, at the very most to within plus or minus 0.1. I did the math earlier on in the thread. Thick head or not, I do understand mathematics fairly well, and this isn't even a piece of math that requires much intelligence. Unless the new system causes people to rate about 10 times higher than the current rate of, oh I don't know, 5%, 0 will be the new average. Notice that no one else has made the argument you're making, and there's a reason...

well sorry to hear you dont know basic math either because whatever it is SUPPOSE to be is not reality this new system isnt going to magically make people rate 0's on people they will still rate 2's if they decide to rate seriously stop it your just making a fool of yoruself i've replied the same way to all your comments and you are just replying the same way to me and it is very clear you do not know what your talking about
what makes you think people will decide to rate 0 on average players? all it takes is a friendly chat in the chat box to get all 2stars or an amazing play will get you the 2 stars or even just saying gl and gg at the end if you win or lose
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Postby Metsfanmax on Fri Oct 08, 2010 10:11 pm

ccatman wrote:what makes you think people will decide to rate 0 on average players? all it takes is a friendly chat in the chat box to get all 2stars or an amazing play will get you the 2 stars or even just saying gl and gg at the end if you win or lose


It's a very simple argument. Let's say the current percentage of players who give me ratings is 10%, and they give me all 5s. Let's assume that with the new change the percentage of opponents who rate me does not increase substantially, and then I play against 1000 people (so I get 100 5-star ratings). In the old system, my rating is 5.0. In the new one, my rating is 3.2 out of 5 (equivalently, 0.2 on the scale from -2 to 2). I'm not saying that people will suddenly give zero ratings intentionally. I'm saying the automatically given zero ratings will bring it all back towards the mean.
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Postby ccatman on Fri Oct 08, 2010 10:18 pm

Metsfanmax wrote:
ccatman wrote:what makes you think people will decide to rate 0 on average players? all it takes is a friendly chat in the chat box to get all 2stars or an amazing play will get you the 2 stars or even just saying gl and gg at the end if you win or lose


It's a very simple argument. Let's say the current percentage of players who give me ratings is 10%, and they give me all 5s. Let's assume that with the new change the percentage of opponents who rate me does not increase substantially, and then I play against 1000 people (so I get 100 5-star ratings). In the old system, my rating is 5.0. In the new one, my rating is 3.2 out of 5 (equivalently, 0.2 on the scale from -2 to 2). I'm not saying that people will suddenly give zero ratings intentionally. I'm saying the automatically given zero ratings will bring it all back towards the mean.

i will tell you what you just said in short words then explain it for you
this rating system is bad idea because too many people dont rate
first of all i ask why you want this so dependent on people not rating? if you were to get 10% ratings and 5*'s from everyone you clearly are a good player and deserve more than a 3.2 those 900 people who didnt rate you chose not to rate you because they are lazy and dont care about the rating system not because you were just an ordinary player and with so many people not rating you might get a lot of people around the average rating but you will not get people who are above average at what is now 4.0 and what could be 1.0 later and you will not get anyone near 5.0 and i said before that with this new system noone will get a perfect rating and there are people who deserve them if you think so or not this system will not allow you to go that high. and another thing why do you have a problem with 4.7 being the average rating now?what is so bad about that?
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Postby Metsfanmax on Fri Oct 08, 2010 10:23 pm

ccatman wrote:first of all i ask why you want this so dependent on people not rating? if you were to get 10% ratings and 5*'s from everyone you clearly are a good player and deserve more than a 3.2


Flat-out false. As you alluded to in your above post, saying "gl" and "gg" is often enough to get you five stars. That in no way indicates that you are a good player.

those 900 people who didnt rate you chose not to rate you because they are lazy and dont care about the rating system not because you were just an ordinary player and with so many people not rating you might get a lot of people around the average rating


Yes, that's the idea. Most of the player base should be close to the average. That's the definition of average.

but you will not get people who are above average at what is now 4.0 and what could be 1.0 later and you will not get anyone near 5.0 and i said before that with this new system noone will get a perfect rating and there are people who deserve them if you think so or not this system will not allow you to go that high.


Even if that's true, so what? There are roughly 80% out of the rating scores possible, that basically no one has now (i.e. any score from 1.0 up to 4.0). The system won't get worse.

and another thing why do you have a problem with 4.7 being the average rating now?what is so bad about that?


I find it incredibly annoying, because the average rating should be in the center of the distribution. That's actually my only real motivation here.
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Postby ccatman on Fri Oct 08, 2010 10:29 pm

Metsfanmax wrote:
ccatman wrote:first of all i ask why you want this so dependent on people not rating? if you were to get 10% ratings and 5*'s from everyone you clearly are a good player and deserve more than a 3.2


Flat-out false. As you alluded to in your above post, saying "gl" and "gg" is often enough to get you five stars. That in no way indicates that you are a good player.

those 900 people who didnt rate you chose not to rate you because they are lazy and dont care about the rating system not because you were just an ordinary player and with so many people not rating you might get a lot of people around the average rating


Yes, that's the idea. Most of the player base should be close to the average. That's the definition of average.

but you will not get people who are above average at what is now 4.0 and what could be 1.0 later and you will not get anyone near 5.0 and i said before that with this new system noone will get a perfect rating and there are people who deserve them if you think so or not this system will not allow you to go that high.


Even if that's true, so what? There are roughly 80% out of the rating scores possible, that basically no one has now (i.e. any score from 1.0 up to 4.0). The system won't get worse.

and another thing why do you have a problem with 4.7 being the average rating now?what is so bad about that?


I find it incredibly annoying, because the average rating should be in the center of the distribution. That's actually my only real motivation here.


the average is only the mean of everyone it does not mean most of the people are average it just means when you add up all the players and divide it that number you get is the average
this in no way means that the majority of people are average players say if you have 10 numbers between 1-5 you get 1,2,2,3,4,4,4,4,4,5,5 the average there is 3.8 and 3.8 and 3.0 are not the same number clearly
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Postby Metsfanmax on Fri Oct 08, 2010 10:33 pm

ccatman wrote:the average is only the mean of everyone it does not mean most of the people are average it just means when you add up all the players and divide it that number you get is the average
this in no way means that the majority of people are average players say if you have 10 numbers between 1-5 you get 1,2,2,3,4,4,4,4,4,5,5 the average there is 3.8 and 3.8 and 3.0 are not the same number clearly


Obviously you can find an example of a set of numbers where the average isn't what you want it to be. My whole point is that I believe that the average rating ought to be in the center of the rating distribution. That assumption is the basis of pretty much all of statistics, and besides, I just think it's silly to have a 5 point rating scale and have all the ratings stuck between 4.5 and 5.0.
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Postby ccatman on Fri Oct 08, 2010 10:42 pm

Metsfanmax wrote:
ccatman wrote:the average is only the mean of everyone it does not mean most of the people are average it just means when you add up all the players and divide it that number you get is the average
this in no way means that the majority of people are average players say if you have 10 numbers between 1-5 you get 1,2,2,3,4,4,4,4,4,5,5 the average there is 3.8 and 3.8 and 3.0 are not the same number clearly


Obviously you can find an example of a set of numbers where the average isn't what you want it to be. My whole point is that I believe that the average rating ought to be in the center of the rating distribution. That assumption is the basis of pretty much all of statistics, and besides, I just think it's silly to have a 5 point rating scale and have all the ratings stuck between 4.5 and 5.0.

i agree with you in the sense that having it between 4.5-5.0 is silly but like i said most people understand who is what kind of player 4.7-4.8 is a good sized difference so is 4.8-4.9 4.5 is actually considered somewhat low
but this new system honestly is only making it more dependent on who you play against and if they are lazy or not(did i say that before????) and really if you play a lot of speed games your rating will be hurt if you play a lot of private team games against clans or maybe in trourneys you will have a high rating still with this new system
if you are a low rank or someone who joins a lot off games with them most of them probaly wont rate you or care to rate you if your in 8 player games all the time noone is going to look at how each person plays and then rate them so there solution is dont rate at all
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Postby temporos on Sat Oct 09, 2010 11:42 am

ccatman wrote:people who actually deserve 5.0 ratings right now will not get it ever

Take a statistics course no one "deserves" a perfect score.
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Postby BigBallinStalin on Sat Oct 09, 2010 2:28 pm

No, this is dumb. the ratings are silly anyway. blah blah blah
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