I didn't want to give Merlin extra motivation but, due to Leven winning his 2 games, he had to also win both games to keep the first rank of the Elo ratings: They were tie at 1437! After our games, Merlin lost 7 pts and is now at 1430.
Good point Jéré Perhaps it would be worth taking this opportunity to point out what Elo is to those who might not be as familiar with it? You could link back to our most recent rankings too?
Quote from: Jéré on January 29, 2017, 11:39:57 PMI didn't want to give Merlin extra motivation but, due to Leven winning his 2 games, he had to also win both games to keep the first rank of the Elo ratings: They were tie at 1437! After our games, Merlin lost 7 pts and is now at 1430.Wow, I wasn't aware that it can happen so early in this league. If I'm not mistaken Merlin_89 was in the 1st position for the whole 2016, but by missing the World Cup at the end of the year he gave others (especially the winner) the chance to narrow the gap. And Jéré, did you and khalid also swap positions on 3rd-4th place?
And Jéré, did you and khalid also swap positions on 3rd-4th place?
Thanks for the update MrNumbers, and welcome to the tournament Marcos (maedac); now that you've played MrNumbers you can pretty much relax for the rest of the league!
Interesting thing to note: As usual, points one gets are taken from the other player but the format of this league forces the player that has higher Elo to win both games to increase his score! This spices things up in my opinion.
Not sure if it's right and I'm seeing wrong, but please report the games result with the player starting the game first, even if he is the one losing.
Quote from: Chooselife on February 02, 2017, 01:44:41 AMNot sure if it's right and I'm seeing wrong, but please report the games result with the player starting the game first, even if he is the one losing.Yes, this would be helpful, although if I get the order of the games played the wrong way round in the database it doesn't matter too much for the score calculation. The most important thing is that the start player for each game is mentioned in the write-up. Although, as long as game screenshots include the status bar on the right side of the screen (where it shows scores and meeples/ wood in hand) then I can see for myself as the starting player is always the player at the top here...
Starting player has won 62,5% of the games (10 out of 16). Let's see if this trend continues in the next rounds.
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