Effective way to rank minibots?

[Zoughtbaj]

Originally Posted by XaulZan11

Several people have said they are keeping track of the place of the minibot. I don't think that is the best way to do it as it is highly dependent on the other robots. A 10 second minibot could get 1st if there are no other minibots while a 5 second minibot could get 4th is they are with really fast minibots. Over the course of 8 matches, I don't think things will average out.

This is actually why I chose to do it this way.

Instead of taking something such as the rank, it will translate that rank into an "I'm better than you" kind of rank. For example, If Min1 comes in first, what the matrix will do is take into account who he got 1st against; 2, 3, and 4. I've actually tried to steer away from using time, and instead am using kind of a "Who beats who" kind of thing. That's the wonderful thing I've found with this system: by squaring the matrix, if 1 beats 2 and 2 beats three, that squaring will tell the data that 1 technically beats 3.

The few problems are that it can't be weighted, and each participant has to play the same amount of times for it to be accurate, which is why I was wondering if there was something I could do to improve the accuracy of the system.