Ranking

[ubermeister]

I think the scoring system has many problems, but I am starting to see how it works.

The system obviously degenerates when the scores are low and the penalties are high (see my previous post.) But, if you work with the assumption that you are a good team, you will see that you will be highly rewarded, and rewarded more for winning against other good teams.

The system isn't supposed to sort the entire team list by how good they are, it is only supposed to find the top 8. The rest are essentially random, since they are going off mostly other teams' scores. The top alliances are going off mostly their scores and their coopertition.

The one thing I still don't like is how in a 5-5 tie, one penalty causes a 10 point swing in how seeding points are distributed. It gets too discontinuous on evenly-matched teams.