Actionjick
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I'm not a fan of player ratings/rankings but like a musical earworm the APCR thread kept occupying my thoughts. Captain Bacchus and I were talking it over and came to the conclusion that rating systems are modeling themselves on the wrong game, chess. I believe it should be baseball, a game that thrives on statistics, and player performance should be modelled on batting average. For those unfamiliar it is a percentage based on the number of a baseball players at bats versus how many hits they made. 1000 at bats, 250 hits and a .250 batting average.
For ASL why not just go by the players won/ loss record somehow taking into account the number of games played?
Example:
Player 7104. 100 games played. 50 wins. A " batting average " of .500
Don. 1000 games played. 650 wins. .650 batting average.
Bobbyjick. 10 games played. 6 wins. .600 batting average
While all 3 players have similar batting averages by looking at the games played you can tell that Don is a consistently good player and much more experienced than the other two. Bobbyjick as a newbie is doing well but hasn't played enough to be able to really rate him as a player. Player 7104 has played a good number of games and we can assume his average is an adequate reflection of his skill.
What I like about this is it doesn't lend itself to the " you're rating is too low for me to play you " syndrome. A win versus a newbie is the same as a win versus one of the Big Guys. In baseball a hit off of pitcher Walter Johnson was recorded the same as a hit off of a rookie pitcher making his first big league start. It's a system that's worked for baseball for over 125 years. The beauty is you can make an accurate comparison of two players perfomances who lived 100 years apart because you are not looking at who they batted against but how well they did when they batted.
In the APCR thread I was questioning what the objective of a rating system was so it's only fair that I do that here for my proposal.
If I were a TD the most important criteria for me would be the number of games someone has played, the player`s experience. Looking at the won/ loss record is helpful but can be misleading, too many unknowns. Looking at our three players even though Bobbyjick has a higher batting average than 7104 I know the obvious matchup is 7104 versus Don. Good luck Don!
I'm sure there are shortcomings to this approach but after all it was proposed by someone who is not a fan of ratings. I like baseball though. Please feel free to rip this idea to shreds. Captain Bacchus and I have thick skins.
Btw, imho should be the Walter Johnson Award, not Cy Young. Apologies to our foreign friends for this diversion into America's national pastime.
For ASL why not just go by the players won/ loss record somehow taking into account the number of games played?
Example:
Player 7104. 100 games played. 50 wins. A " batting average " of .500
Don. 1000 games played. 650 wins. .650 batting average.
Bobbyjick. 10 games played. 6 wins. .600 batting average
While all 3 players have similar batting averages by looking at the games played you can tell that Don is a consistently good player and much more experienced than the other two. Bobbyjick as a newbie is doing well but hasn't played enough to be able to really rate him as a player. Player 7104 has played a good number of games and we can assume his average is an adequate reflection of his skill.
What I like about this is it doesn't lend itself to the " you're rating is too low for me to play you " syndrome. A win versus a newbie is the same as a win versus one of the Big Guys. In baseball a hit off of pitcher Walter Johnson was recorded the same as a hit off of a rookie pitcher making his first big league start. It's a system that's worked for baseball for over 125 years. The beauty is you can make an accurate comparison of two players perfomances who lived 100 years apart because you are not looking at who they batted against but how well they did when they batted.
In the APCR thread I was questioning what the objective of a rating system was so it's only fair that I do that here for my proposal.
If I were a TD the most important criteria for me would be the number of games someone has played, the player`s experience. Looking at the won/ loss record is helpful but can be misleading, too many unknowns. Looking at our three players even though Bobbyjick has a higher batting average than 7104 I know the obvious matchup is 7104 versus Don. Good luck Don!
I'm sure there are shortcomings to this approach but after all it was proposed by someone who is not a fan of ratings. I like baseball though. Please feel free to rip this idea to shreds. Captain Bacchus and I have thick skins.
Btw, imho should be the Walter Johnson Award, not Cy Young. Apologies to our foreign friends for this diversion into America's national pastime.
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