Get better.

Sample space too large. Too hard to reverse the stats.

That represents your skill. So, your as skillful as your stats say you are. Even if they reset; you'd be as skilled as before.

Even if they do look a *bit* bad, it's how skillful you are. I might lose some games, win some games, etc. but I would keep them no matter HOW BAD they are, because that's my skill.

IMO.

It might take a while, but you should be able to change them. They're not *terribly* bad, really... the only one that I would say is actually bad in any sense is the two resigns.

8% wins is a little above the average, IIRC.

Can't find any of the stats that were floating around this site but I think most countries sat around 6-7% wins. And, what? 40% wins? Kinda pulling numbers out of my ass now. Anybody got a link to the stats?

Mine are ok:
Defeated: 7 ( 20% )
Won: 3 ( 9% )
Drawn: 12 ( 34% )
Survived: 12 ( 34% )
Resigned: 1 ( 3% )

However I stand by the fact that the resigned should have been a win, which I was at 16 scs in a live game before time constraints forced the resign.

Dizzy has a 79% win...

See, I find stats a little odd, since there's been a definite shift in players' attitudes on this site since I played more regularly a few years back.

Back then, people seemed to play to the death a lot more; a draw would usually only happen when a stalemate or near stalemate had been reached, and very rarely by more than three players. My stats reflect this: 4% draws, 45% defeats, 38% survives, 13% wins.

Now, though, people seem much more willing to draw, and this is reflected in the stats; less outright defeats, many more draws. I'm not sure I like it, tbh, especially considering that the best part of Dip for me is once it's down to three or four countries fighting it out for 18 SCs.

I'm concerned since I have been defeated or only managed to survive, a whopping 68% of the time.
The thing is I started playing in 2007. Back then I was a noob, and also PPSC was the only game type so survives netted points.
Along came WTA, and along came people who only played WTA throughout their game career here, and we're looking at people who draw 40% of their games and win another 10%.

By the way, the resigns were due to unfortunate situations with live games. I was trying them out and naturally forgot they started.

@Worldbeing: perhaps people play more WTA nowadays?

@Worldbeing, perhaps the games that were draws back then were something like this? gameID=60765

Mine are somewhat biased from the early days of this site when, for the sake of points, it was advantageous to bet everything until you were below 100 and then join some hopeless CD country and lose as quickly as possible (at that point, your not-in-play points would then rise to 100 , hopefully just before you completed another game!). Obviously my stats include quite a few deliberate losses for that reason, but here they are:
Defeated: 34 ( 40% )
Won: 14 ( 17% )
Drawn: 7 ( 8% )
Survived: 27 ( 32% )
Resigned: 2 ( 2% )
Total (finished): 84

My suspicion is that if the average win rating for a player is in the range of 8%, we have a ridiculously high number of drawn games on this site (or else World Diplomacy IX is bizarrely popular, which seems unthinkable to me). Using only Classic Diplomacy and no draws, you would expect a win ratio averaged at just above 14%.

I've lately had more draws than before, probably in part due to playing live games and in part due to the vote features. Drawing was something that required a forum post and moderator intervention back in the day.

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MY STATS:

Defeated: 2 ( 14% )
Drawn: 7 ( 50% )
Survived: 5 ( 36% )
Total (finished): 14
Playing: 7

my two losses are about to be three. One was because I joined a game in which one of those people created an account and left so I was Austria with one unit. My other two were stabs.

Oh yeah, then they introduced the /pause and /draw options, then finally the vote button arrived.

lol

I remember /draw and /pause

My favorite is how game links used to not confirm. I joined so many games by accident. Remember when people would post something like "I think there's a bug in gameID=xxx" but it was really a new game they tricked you into joining?

Seriously, Gobble, your account has character from its age. I like that my profile shows almost every game of Diplomacy I've played.

goldfinger, that game is epic. 1934?! Amazing.