Combined Leaderboard (P4P Champion)
3 years ago
Scotland

Hi all,

An idea I had floated pre-V05 was to have a weighted leaderboard adding up each runner's total contributions to give them an overall score.

My thinking was that it would a] allow us to compete across the whole spectrum of characters and difficulties, b] encourage people to try out different characters and difficulties and c] reward optimisation of the top run in each category.

I have now created this leaderboard and will periodically update it:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q2uWj_vtYMpLo89NuT4QZZLcbIJLzvtRWbeoxJ6VO74/edit?usp=sharing

I will periodically update this post with a Top Three once there have been a few more runs.

At present it is very weighted towards one or two Mania runs, but feel free to have a look and see how your runs have weighted at present.

(In particular, Paul-Knives has leapt right up due to decimating my Blaze1 Mania by over 11 minutes - trust me, I mean to rectify that soon ;) )

Hopefully this will be taken as intended - an extra bit of good, fun competition :D my intention is absolutely not to demean anyone or categorically say any one person is "better" than another - we all have our areas of expertise, but I wanted a fun thought exercise to see who could be considered the pound-for-pound champion across the board.

Explanations in the next comment:

Edited by the author 3 years ago
Scotland

My reasoning and how I weighted the scores.

First of all, I am happy to discuss these and take on board any feedback, but overall I wanted to try and ensure I rewarded those runners who strived to optomise each category above all else.

Essentially, I wanted to make sure that only the best runs are considered. Last iteration, multiple categories had only one run and most of these were not really optimal. As such, for a run to be considered on the board it has to meet the following criteria:

There must be at least five runs total for that category; or, It must be below 1 hour (Easy-Normal-Hard) or 1:10 (Hardest-Mania)

You will notice I am not including Boss Rush - it is too different to include in an exercise like this.

Now, if your run meets the above criteria you will receive base points as follows:

1st place - 10 2nd place - 8 3rd place - 5 4th place - 3 5th place - 2 6th place - 1

I want to encourage/reward optomising the runs so you will also receive bonus based points as follows:

For 1st place - An extra point per full minute faster than 2nd For 2nd place - An extra .75 points per full minute faster than 3rd For 3rd place - An extra half point per full minute faster than 4th

So it's not just about getting a run on the board - this will reward the top three, and reward you destroying the records below you.

Now, this base point will be multiplied as follows based on what I consider the worth of each difficulty/competition of the difficulties to be:

Easy - x2 Normal - x1 Hard - x1 Hardest - x3 Mania - x4

I believe Easy deserves rewarding as it should realistically be the speediest run of them all; Hardest and Mania deserve rewarding for how difficult it is to complete a run compared to Normal/Hard.

Finally, perhaps the hardest part of all, I have then given each character a multiplier as follows. This is pretty basic and the area I am most happy to accept debate/discussion on. This is based on the difficulty of completing the game quickly with these characters either due to their moveset, movement speed or damage dealt.

I have played every character at multiple difficulties on V04 but haven't yet for V05 so if you think the new nerf/buffs mean a character should move up or down, please tell me:

Fast: x1 multiplier Adam, Blaze, Cherry, Axel2, Max, Shiva, Skate3, Zan

Medium: x2 multiplier Axel, Floyd, Axel1, Skate2, Axel3

Slow: x3 multiplier Adam1, Blaze1, Blaze2, Blaze3

So there you have it. I hope this will encourage some people to explore other categories and to continue improving on runs that are even already a World Record, in order to move up and down the combined pound-for-pound leaderboard. This is just for fun, a friendly competition. Let me know if you enjoy this idea :D

Edited by the author 3 years ago
Scotland

Hi all, this was always going to be a big project to take on but unfortunately a: my real life responsibilities and b: general disinterest from the community; means I am going to shelf this.

I am very happy if anyone else has the inclination to take this up and would help set it up and maintain it, but for now unfortunately my IRL stuff takes precedence. (I haven't even been able to play the game for the past three weeks! lol)

Edited by the author 3 years ago