MARP scoring system

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Hi!

Correct me if I'm wrong but I understood the scoring system as the 1st position gets 100 points and all the others a percentage of this comparing the 1st place score to theirs. e.g. 1st place 10000 points 100 marp score x place 4500 points 45 marp score

But I discovered this with Tetris Sega Bootleg... 1st place 168842 points 100 marp score my score 15900 points 4(!!!) marp score

Shouldn't I have received 1 or even 0 score!??!?!?!

rough(adamsky)

-- rOuGh (adamsky@gmx.ch), August 17, 1999

Answers

A mistake late in the night:

With the above score it was close to 1/10 not 1/100 of the top score so I should have received 9 points as my score is 9% of 100%=top.

Still my question stays!

-- rgh (adamsky@gmx.ch), August 18, 1999.


Ah - well, you're nearly right, but there's a 15% gap between 1st and 2nd place - so if 1st place scores 100,001 and 2nd place scores 100,000 points, 1st will get 100 points, and 2nd will get 85 points. This continues on down for all places.

The way it works, is that each player gets 85% of the score which the person above them gets, times the ratio of the two scores. The 85% thing was intended to make people more keen to compete - you're guaranteed to gain at least 15 points when you move up from 2nd to 1st in a game.

There's some discussion going on in a different thread at the moment about changing how this all works again, but until any clear consensus is arrived at, I think I'll leave it alone...

Chris.

-- Zwaxy (zwaxy@mail.com), August 19, 1999.


about scoring system, i think that if we want to have more upload with big records a good way is:

1) Use the compound percentage of 15% (or more) only for place after the third (4,5,6,ecc.)

2) Use the average. If you don't have a certain average (20,30,40,ecc.) you cannot figure in the top ten leadership.

Using this two method will probably guarantee that is more convenient to upload record that are up of the average admitted

-- A.D. SAKURAGI (adeidda@newmail.net), November 14, 1999.


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