Weighted leaderboard thoughts
3 years ago
Scotland

Hi all,

So I've been thinking about making a weighted leaderboard to try and encourage people to run more categories.

The SOR1 Blaze categories are finally getting some love, but there are like 85 main categories.

So my thought was a weighted leaderboard, where the top five runs on each category get a certain amount of points, giving you a total "high score". I'd be doing this for fun, much like cestpatou's IL leaderboard, and isn't to be taken super seriously. Just something I want to do off my own back.

Where I'm looking for input though is the weights of the scores.

So far I have thought:

Easy = 1x, Normal = 2x, Hard = 3x, Hardest = 6x, Mania = 7x 5th place = 1x, 4th = 2x, 3rd = 3x, 2nd = 6x, 1st = 7x

And then a tier list of characters is needed in terms of difficulty.

S = 1x, A = 2x, B = 3x, C = 4x, D = 5x

It's the character ranking I really need input on.

Shiva is obviously an S rank, SOR1 Adam is obviously a D rank, but what about the others? Is five rankings enough? Is SOR1 Adam 5x harder than Shiva or more or less?

As you can see, it is just in the draft stage right now and open to discussion. But using this first draft for instance:

BillDupond's 1st place SOR1 Adam Hard would be worth 105 points 3lo's 1st place Shiva Mania would be worth 49 points IDemiiK's 1st place SOR1 Adam Easy would be worth 35 points and so on

I don't instinctively think a SOR1 Adam Hard is necessarily twice as worthy as a Shiva Mania, despite Adam being much harder to play with, so I'm also thinking of adding a multiplier bonus for runs that are under an hour, maybe x1.5.

If more people ran SOR1 Adam Hard then it would get under an hour, but as it is BillDupond has an easy 105 points by virtue of being the only run on the board, which I guess is kind of what I want to get out of this project - more people running more categories.

It's all really first draft stuff at the moment, but it's an idea I want to develop regardless if anyone else is even interested, so happy to hear some feedback and especially character tier lists.

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