IPL Power Rankings Fan Poll - Win IPL4 Tickets!

JoshSuth · 2 months

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JoshSuth · 2 months

Hey, Shubb. Feel free to PM me your list of top 10 players and email. We'll manually enter your poll answers.

JoshSuth · 3 months

Yeah, from the computer's point-of-view: Getting the runner-up spot at IEM Kiev gave Dimaga a boost.

JoshSuth · 3 months

Quite a few folks in the industry agree with you. http://www.ign.com/ipl/starcraft-2/stats/power-rankings/2012/02/09/industry-poll

While he's being doing well in GSTL, the computers penalized him a little for losing to Heart. http://www.ign.com/ipl/starcraft-2/stats/matchups/heart-bomber-6117

JoshSuth · 3 months

Thanks. We have a long way to go but this is a start.

We plan on calculating new rankings every week to be released every Thursday. Polls for fans and the industry stay open until the Wednesday before so that events over the weekend can be considered.

JoshSuth · 3 months

Let me try a short :) summary:

Our ratings system has similarities to Elo. Every player starts off with a strength of 1000, which adjusts according to performance. And we track the average strength of each player's opponents and the average strength of each opponent's opponents. Having more games under your belt affects how your rating is considered against your win percentage.

Making the semifinals of tournaments (IPL, GSL, MLG, etc.) significantly affects how the computers rank a player. However, the value of those placings decays over 6 months.

For example, take IdrA, who is #48 in the computer rankings.

http://www.ign.com/ipl/starcraft-2/stats/players/idra http://www.ign.com/ipl/starcraft-2/stats/power-rankings/2012/02/09/computer

He has a strength rating that's above average (1003). He also has maintained a high win percentage (59%) against players rated higher than himself (1030.92) over a large number of games. Also, he recently got 4th place at the MLG Global Invitational and MLG Orlando before that.

JoshSuth · 3 months

We calculate every player's strength and factor it heavily into the computer's rankings. Everyone starts off with a default strength. Strength changes depending on the results of winning or losing against a player with a higher or lower strength. In this case, Min's strength is higher than Gretorp's but has less games played, which affects the outcome. There are numerous players with high strength but too few games played/won.

http://www.ign.com/ipl/starcraft-2/stats/players/gretorp http://www.ign.com/ipl/starcraft-2/stats/players/min

TL;DR Min will make a jump in the computer rankings as plays/wins more.

JoshSuth · 3 months

In our system, Gretorp's win percentage plays a key factor to his higher rating because he's played a key number of games in major tournaments. Min has not yet met this threshold. Min is very close though.

JoshSuth · 3 months

Hey, all. There's a few parts of the stats site that lists the player by their computer rank rather than the composite (computer + industry + fan). We're working to update the system and should have things fixed shortly.

BennettIGN · 3 months

Thanks, Aaron. We agree. It was dumb idea to make things easier for us to calculate. Everyone can just fill in the names now.

AlexIGN · 3 months

Thanks, flick.

The layout definitely needs work. Overall, we're not very consistent with regards to typography. The problem is worsened by the color choices, which are questionable in hindsight.

You will find a lot of people agree with you about the awkwardness of the main menu. I imagine that we'll end up scrapping it and starting over.

Your critique was tremendously helpful. We'll rethink some of our choices and work on improvements.

There are some great ideas in your mockup below. The stronger grid composition supports the featured content in a better way than what we put together. May we reach out to you once we've put together some revised comps?

AlexIGN · 3 months

Thanks for the heads up, rt. That's absolutely unacceptable. I'll make sure that this problem is fixed ASAP.

AlexIGN · 3 months

Between this thread and the survey results:

stop auto-playing the featured videos
make it easy to find current tournament information (IPL 4, TAC 2, brackets, prize pool, etc.)

Half of you said that you couldn't find what you were looking for. Can you guys help us out? What content was hard to find? We'll implement good suggestions just as long as it's not "When/where is IPL 4?"

AlexIGN · 3 months

As if CatsPajamas and Doa aren't enough for you.

AlexIGN · 3 months

Our video player has custom controls that performs the same tasks as the default Twitch player.

AlexIGN · 3 months

Hmm... Endless loop of ads? That's not good. Would you mind sending us a message with your OS and browser info?

AlexIGN · 3 months

We wrote code that shaved his facial hair.

AlexIGN · 3 months

These are really good ideas, 3lijah. Thanks. I especially like presenting context and updates for live content.

AlexIGN · 3 months

Heard loud and clear.

AlexIGN · 3 months

There's definitely been a lot of debate about the best way to present IPL video content.

AlexIGN · 3 months

Thanks for comps, 2uneek. Send me a message if you're interested in doing some work for the IPL.

AlexIGN · 3 months

You're absolutely right. We need to be clear about what is going on instead of just throwing a list of new videos out there.

AlexIGN · 3 months

Is that how to say "Crap." in Korean?

AlexIGN · 3 months

Well, now we're fighting over the responses in this thread :)

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