2010 World Ranking

[Metropolis Man]

Sims 3 2010 World Ranking

The World Ranking has two basic components: a Wins component and a Participation component. I’ll walk everyone through my own statistics as of April 26 to shed light on how one’s World Ranking is achieved.

Each challenge has a column in the spreadsheet. Individidual cells in the challenge columns are filled with a ratio of how many players a player beat in that challenge in relation to how many could have been beaten. So, my Perfectly Happy cell is =15/28; the Nectar challenge is =22/24, and the Upgrade Race is =25/35.

Down the spreadsheet we then have a “Sum of Wins” column which is just the total of all of one’s ratios in each challenge column. So, my own stat in that column is 2.17 (rounded).

Next comes the Number of Events column which is a simple count function for all challenge columns. I participated in all 3 challenges, so that figure is 3. The Sum of Wins is then divided by the # of Events for an Ave of Wins column. My stat there is .72 (rounded). Now it’s time to add the weight for the Wins component. The Wins weight for everyone is 70% of final score, so we take .72*.70 and get approximately .51. That’s my final Wins component.

The second component is the lesser weighted component (30%)—the Participation element. Everyone receives a 10% participation bonus added to their score for every challenge they finish. So, there’s a 10-event cap at which point someone would receive 100% of the score. If someone participates in more than 10 challenges in the Tournament, then a player’s best finishes will be used to compute stats.

Okay, so I’ve participated in the first 3 events, so my participation bonus is .30 (10% per event). Participation counts for 30% of final score, so we then take .30*.30 and get my final Participation Component of .09.

My World Ranking is my Final Wins Component + my Final Participation Component (.51 + .09) = .60 (rounded).

[EDIT: June 7, the above example is obviously with dated info, but hopefully everyone that's interested in how the WR is computed can still follow along — MM]

My heartfelt thanks to all participants in all events. You guys have really made the 2010 Tournament a lot of fun so far.

World Ranking—August 30, 2010

Player	World Ranking
omega2alpha	.863
LenaLJ	.833
NancyJ	.797
ik	.775
Delgar	.762
TheCub	.758
Metropolis Man	.753
Jonna	.714
Schipperke	.703
Zylphe	.641
meamalso2	.641
wildredchild	.633
lianne	.630
ClayMask	.608
Kaori	.594
tosho	.589
HelenP	.579
Twinmum	.532
MirandaX	.525
Archer0	.519
Pam	.514
Eftyen	.497
dannyr783	.485
AriaGirl77	.480
akurinne	.474
annieb	.445
alyssa.cole	.432
Margerita	.402
Kaibilly	.389
momofmany	.361
lilygirl	.321
simfulicious	.318
Saltypaws	.276
curlybennett	.258
Chelkey	.182
kat	.159
CarlaluvsSims	.153
Abyshep	.150

[romagia]

sounds exciting.

[Eftyen]

Sounds awesome.  I only have one thing to quibble about: the proposed ranking titles.  IMHO, any player who shows the dedication to actually complete 3 separate challenges does not deserve the label of "Bad" or worse.  Seriously, any challenge player is a cut above most "Normal" Sims 3 players.  Is there any way to rename the ranks so they are all honorary instead of the lowest ranks being derogatory?

Oh, and you left Excellent out of the list.

As for rankings, may I suggest looking at the way sports teams are ranked by their win/loss numbers, and the ranks of the teams beaten/lost to?

[Metropolis Man]

Sounds awesome.  I only have one thing to quibble about: the proposed ranking titles.  IMHO, any player who shows the dedication to actually complete 3 separate challenges does not deserve the label of "Bad" or worse.  Seriously, any challenge player is a cut above most "Normal" Sims 3 players.  Is there any way to rename the ranks so they are all honorary instead of the lowest ranks being derogatory?

You've got a point. I'll give it some thought.

EDIT: What about student > Grandmaster types of titles? Their already in the game as well with the chess and martial arts ranking, so they're familiar with players. Can you think of some more brackets where tourney players could fall — honor student, teacher, master, and maybe one more so there could be at least 5 brackets? I do a similar ranking nomenclature for Diablo: Ninja, Samurai, Shogun, and the very top player is called Emperor. Those are obviously more suited to the game with their fighting association, so our labels I think should be more learning/student types of labels.

As for rankings, may I suggest looking at the way sports teams are ranked by their win/loss numbers, and the ranks of the teams beaten/lost to?

That's already the plan — a simple Win/Loss ratio. The ranking titles would be tagged to someone depending on their W/L ratio.

[Metropolis Man]

After Eftyen's solid suggestion of removing the derogatory ranking titles I've put some more thought into this whole naming issue. I don't think there's any need to come up with new martial arts ranks like student, master, grandmaster, etc. I think my original idea is fine of names that parallel the various qualities in the game. I think all that needs to be done is just nix the sub-Normal ones. There doesn't need to be 11 different ranks anyway. So, I'm thinking that tourney players will be ranked as follows:

Outstanding
Excellent
Great
Very Nice
Nice

Plus, the very top ranked Outstanding tourney player will hold the title of Perfect to show him/her some kind of distinction.

So, let's see how this will break down. Let's say after the Perfectly Happy Challenge and 2 additional tournaments that there's a total pool of 15 different players that have finished all 3 events. A simple win/loss ratio will be calculated for all of the players and then they'd be ranked with 3 players going into each of the 5 tiers. I guess that's the simple plan for now. If anyone has more thoughts, please share.

[Pam]

I like these ranking titles.  Very good.

[Eftyen]

indeed... the new list gets my stamp of approval.  (^_^)

not that it matters...

[Metropolis Man]

indeed... the new list gets my stamp of approval.  (^_^)

not that it matters...

It matters a great deal to me. The last thing I want players to think is that I'm pulling all of this stuff out of my rear end for my own benefit. I want this to be something we all enjoy, and that means I need feedback from lots of players on their likes and dislikes.

[jmz95]

indeed... the new list gets my stamp of approval.  (^_^)

not that it matters...

It matters a great deal to me. The last thing I want players to think is that I'm pulling all of this stuff out of my rear end for my own benefit. I want this to be something we all enjoy, and that means I need feedback from lots of players on their likes and dislikes.

Lol. Power to the people!

[HelenP]

I'm laying claim to a spot solidly in the 'Nice' category  .