2010-08-08, 11:37 PM
The point gain/loss seems to be off by one row. The +/-s should be moved one row up for the chart to read correctly (which would explain the 0 under Who Started? on the bottom row of each chart).
From the data that's available, you get 10 points if you have less than 30 point difference and 11 if you have above. You also gain 9 if you have anywhere from 1 to 13 point difference.
You gain twice as many points if you win a game hosted by someone else and lose twice as many points if you lose a game you hosted.
That's all I could figure out from the data. If you want to figure out the cut-off lines you should have two fresh characters keep winning/losing and keep track of the points gained/lost and the score difference. If you want to see if the absolute point value has anything to do with the formula get a third person and lose against them on the character that has been winning in the first experiment. Once you shrink the score difference back down to where you have the data, run the experiment again and see if the results are the same. The whole experiment should take less than an hour if you can control 2 computers (which I can't b/c otherwise I would've collected data for you before). Still nice work with the ground work
From the data that's available, you get 10 points if you have less than 30 point difference and 11 if you have above. You also gain 9 if you have anywhere from 1 to 13 point difference.
You gain twice as many points if you win a game hosted by someone else and lose twice as many points if you lose a game you hosted.
That's all I could figure out from the data. If you want to figure out the cut-off lines you should have two fresh characters keep winning/losing and keep track of the points gained/lost and the score difference. If you want to see if the absolute point value has anything to do with the formula get a third person and lose against them on the character that has been winning in the first experiment. Once you shrink the score difference back down to where you have the data, run the experiment again and see if the results are the same. The whole experiment should take less than an hour if you can control 2 computers (which I can't b/c otherwise I would've collected data for you before). Still nice work with the ground work