2012 World Ranking

[Metropolis Man]

2012 World Ranking

The World Ranking has two basic components: a Wins component (65%) and a Participation component (35%). I wanted to design a very simple ranking system that was still an effective measure of player caliber. To receive a World Ranking a player must finish at least 3 Tournament challenges. So, let me walk everyone through how one's World Ranking is determined.

Each of the 2012 Tournament challenges has a column in my Tournament spreadsheet. Individual cells in the challenge columns are filled with a ratio of how many players a player beat in that challenge in relation to how many could have been beaten. Let’s take a look at Joe Blow and how Joe did in the first 3 events of the season. Let’s say the field size of event #1 is 25 and Joe finished 8th. That means he beat 17 out of a possible 24 players (I don’t count Joe), so Joe’s event #1 cell is =17/24. The 2nd event was larger, 30 players, and Joe did even better and finished 6th. Event #2’s cell is =24/29. Event #3’s participation dropped to 25, but Joe pulled out all the stops and won it. Event #3’s cell is =24/24.

Down the spreadsheet after all of the individual challenge columns is the “Sum of Wins” column. This is just the total of all of one’s ratios in each challenge column. So, with the first 3 events in the bag, Joe’s “Sum of Wins” column is 2.537.

Next comes the “# of Events” column which is a simple count function for all challenge columns. Joe has only participated in 3 2012 Tournament Challenges so far, so his “# of Events” figure is 3. The “Sum of Wins” is then divided by the “# of Events” for an “Ave of Wins” column:

2.537 / 3 = .845.

Now it’s time to add the weight for the Wins component. The Wins weight for everyone is 65% of final score, so we take .845 X .65 and get .549. That’s Joe’s final Wins component.

The second component is the lesser weighted component (35%) — Participation (I'm actually boosting it 5% compared to its weight in 2010). Everyone who submits a score in a challenge receives a 10% participation bonus figured into their ranking. So, there’s a 10-event cap at which point a player receives 100% of the Participation component. If someone participates in more than 10 Tournament challenges, then a player’s best finishes will be used to compute the World Ranking.

Okay, so Joe Blow has participated in the first 3 events. His participation bonus is .30 (10% per event). Participation counts for 35% of final score, so we then take .30 X .35 to get Joe’s final Participation component of .105.

Joe’s World Ranking is his final Wins component + his final Participation component:

.549 + .105 = .654.

For a trip down memory lane, check out the Final 2010 World Ranking and the Final 2011 World Ranking.

2012 World Ranking — March 25

Player	World Ranking
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