Ratings are back at Dominion Online!
They have been updated to reflect the rated games played since 28th of March. In addition, they now change "live", that means once you played a rated game, you can immediately see your new level in the leaderboard and don't need to wait for the next update at midnight UTC.
Details can be found here: Developer post about ratings
Posted Apr 24, 2020, 12:49 PM UTC
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Dear DominionCardBot,
maybe it's better not to search for card names in URL's to avoid false positives. But I'm not sure how complicated that is.
And why did it pull Forum out of the URL but not March out of the text?
So there's some smarts in it, but not the right smarts.
Because March is one of the new Menagerie cards and URLs are part of the source text even if they the text doesn't show up when formatted. The bot isn't looking at a screen. It's reading a script.
I've yet to see it pull any Menagerie cards.
It's easy enough to identify links with regular expressions, so I doubt it would be a very complicated change. But even a small amount of effort might not be worth it to the developer, since having false positives isn't all that bad.
I play a lot of 3-5 player games with friends, but my rating says I have only played 2 games. Do games with friends not count in the ratings?
There is a separate 3P leaderboard.
To count towards the leaderboard a game needs to be ranked. You can toggle ranked/unranked in the settings for lobbies you make yourself.
Thanks for the information!
Ah, no. Now it’s going to stop matching me with scrubs!
I'm sure you'll be back with the scrubs soon enough :D
How did you guess!
Wow, this is cool... though does this fundamentally change how ratings are calculated? I think ratings used to be calculated in a daily "period," so with the new change, does each player's rating actually change immediately? Or do they only see their projected new rating immediately? Thanks :)
No, the fundamental method has not changed, it is still based on ratings periods (1 day). What is shown now is the "projected" new rating, assuming that you don't play any more rated games until the ratings period ends.
For clarification:
The Glicko-2 system is based on rating batches of games as if they happened simultaneously. Effectively, all my games in a batch are treated as if they all had the same \mu, \phi, and \sigma.
In the old rating system, all the games in a day were included in each batch, so effectively, no-one's rating changed during the day. Games played against the same opponent during the day have the same the calculations.
In the new rating system, is the batch size reduced to one game? Does the first loss against an opponent lower my rating less than the 10th consecutive loss?
Or is the inter-day rating merely a projection, and the ratings still batch-processed at 00:00 UTC?
The ratings system has not changed, all your games of 1 day are still counted with the same mu, phi and sigma you have from the previous "midnight UTC" update.
What's changed is that the leaderboard will now show you what those value will be on the next update (assuming you don't play more games today).
I went from a 34 to a 42.
It's funny because, previously, when matched with a 42, I've been, like, "Oh, no. This is bad. I'm in danger." ((I'm not all that competitive...)).
I wonder what a previous-42's ranking is now...
I went from 38 to 49 because I hadn't played any ranked matches in months so my rating dropped over time.
50 - 57.
But I hadn't played in a few years, so I think a) my rating was super off, and b) I probably was a lot worse 2 weeks ago than now, as I've gotten to learn the cards from the last 3 expansions!
Edit: and I wasn't feeling picky and played some 3p games. 40 -56 in that rating.
Eesh, I'm a bit nervous to see mine.
Excited for the immediate live update though! Thanks for posting this :)
Well there goes half the daily content of this subreddit.
And I sure won't miss it.
I came here to say this.