I think I shoulda done better. A few CDs from the ban and I'd be higher. Next month I'll be top 10, coming for you high rollers

I vaguely recall there used to be some chap that was often near the top. Max, I think his name was... No, that sounds wrong... MrsMax perhaps? Yeah... The initials MM ring a bell. MrsMax must have been it...

Yeah, I've had some really rough games lately...

Me too :( I feel like I shouldn't be as low as I am on that.

The first time in WebDip history that the top GR player has had the honor of posting monthly GR.

I haven't been following this for a while. What happened to gunboat only GR?

Fairfax, my understanding is that the people who used to both have the knowledge and spend the time to run it consistently have since left the project or the site. We have enough knowledge and time (#praiseATC) to still run overall ratings roughly on time. The important thing to know is that there is active work on incorporating GR into the sites code, so it can be automatic and native, somewhat like RR for example. that's my understanding of the current state of affairs

This close to top 50.

Back in Top 10, life makes sense again!

Top 400. Woo...

Top 250

Blegh.

I'll be formatting it nicely and updating the tournaments site momentarily.

Blegh.

I take it people get dropped from the list if they don't have a finished game in the last three months?

https://sites.google.com/site/phpdiplomacytournaments/theghost-ratingslist

Ooh the pretty version!

Up to 11th, highest I've been in 3 years. Nice.

After that asswhoopin I got in my GB series, I expected worse...

Congrats HR, nicely done.

Do limited press and variant map games count in Ghost-Rating?

Both these types of variants count, however they are weighted down to take into account that they are often less well balanced etc.

Actually, the ten-player variants may still be uncounted.

@ghug Yes, that's true. I mostly posted that in response to gunboats having a lower effect than expected.

That would explain why my 5 gunboat games gained me a grand total of 2 places, and 0.8 of a GR point.

More evidence you need to play FP again, Mendax :).

I'm past my peak already; if only the Blind Dip game had been rated *sob* -,_-,

"Fairfax, my understanding is that the people who used to both have the knowledge and spend the time to run it consistently have since left the project or the site."

Boo!

I know near enough how the gunboat list was done, but never liked/approved of it, because it was a terrible representation of skill in gunboat (not enough data).

@GR Obviously I know you're still around, I participated heavily in your last thread. It was a bit of a stretch but it's the best answer I could give.

Sorry bae <3

Ghug - If you or ATC know the discount factors for public press, GB, PPSC and the variants I can work on replicating GR by category. I've got Classic, non-Live, FP, WTA category coded and working basically (I want to do a little more testing but it's mapping pretty closely to what the old lists by category have for that one). For all the others I need to know what value replaces the 1/17.5 factor in the formulas.

Trying to open the April '15 link from the Ghost-Ratings site results in "No permissions". I can open the previous file.

@Yale, Variants file.csv in the folder I sent you before has the factors for everything but the two new variants.

You can add the following rows to include America and Modern (the 3 is arbitrary, but it makes the most sense in the context of the others if we're sticking to integers):
20,American,58,34,10,3,1
19,Modern,64,33,10,3,1

@jbalcorn, I'm not having that issue even when I'm logged out of everything. Can anyone else confirm?

@ghug link works fine for me.

Link works fine for me too. As for the info in the variants file, what does 3 mean in terms of the V factor? The factor for Classic is 17.5 (or really 1/17.5). Gunboat is listed with a 4 in the variants file, does that mean we use 1/(4*17.5) for gunboat? And World also has a 4 in the file, so would a World Gunboat be worth 1/16th as much as a full press Classic in terms of V factor?

I believe that's how it works, yeah. Standard GR does it the same way, so you can confirm with that script or I can do it when I get home or maybe TGM can confirm it now.

Okay. Four seems high for GB to me, especially since Public Press is only 2, but I'll see if I can get it to replicate the old scores using those factors. Basically this is saying a solo in a GB Classic against 6 opponents only boosts your rating 1/4 as much as a solo against those same 6 opponents in FP. Ten points instead of forty if all 7 players are equally matched for example.

Yeah, there are problems with GR, which is why we're looking to overhaul it entirely when we integrate a rating system. In the meantime, changing the scaling after it's been done this way for four years without making any other changes is probably not the best thing to do.

I think gunboat as a standalone category just used 17.5, but I'm not sure about that.

3 games played in March (all gunboat), 3 solo victories. GR went up less than 20 . So the competition may not have been the greatest, but damn... I had visions of rocketing up into the top 50!

two of those three wins were PPSC, and GR, like webdip points and God's forgiveness, are significantly reduced in PPSC.

Yes, PPSC gunboats are an abomination. Still, a win is a win. I knew my GR wasn't going to go up to 350 or anything, but I was surprised how little the reward actually turned out to be.

So.... April GR games? Or is that a new thread?

2015 Mar GR Challenge is still ongoing for all 3 boards.

That's alright, mama!

If people show interest, don't let that fact stop you. But it might explain why there's not a huge clamor. Especially with Leagues and ODC ongoing. The 2015 MAR GRC was the first one since the 2014 OCT GRC, and there was still a board or two not done from the latter! My point is that it's not traditionally done every month.

Gotcha! I'll stop with the Bob Dylan lyric-riffing, too. I just think this is my first year on the site where I've been into Leagues, and GR games, etc, so it is damn fun. Perhaps tomorrow I'll look at interest in an April GR set.

I just don't move. Ever. 150ish forever, baby.