2013 World Ranking

[Metropolis Man]

2013 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 2013 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 the Final 2011 World Ranking., and the 2012 Final World Ranking.

2013 Final World Ranking — December 9 Player                            World Ranking LenaLJ .978 Nutella .868 drift9999 .819 Femke82 .806 ratchie .804 rahmbr .789 alyssa.cole .780 Metropolis Man .771 Ricalynn .743 Turoskel .743 GlazeyLady .709 Niana .699 CynKuy .694 Tipi .690 sweetpea214 .663 christinal3106 .653 MarianT .634 Vinyl .601 bealeywife .596 saltpastillen .595 math_chick .584 Vesper .574 Blackrosea .560 Noocherenee .553 MomOfMany .534 sdhoey .524 klop90 .522 callycat .504 heatherliz2002 .491 Veldmuisie .466 rubywyld .459 kearn76 .458 Ladyfish .448 JSBranter .426 charliemaybe .406 SassySimmer .402 SIMantics101 .402 Makenziegma .385 Deklitch .384 cygnus .383 Kirstie .367 Sarleenia .344 miricats .341 Sarah1992 .341 Abyshep .328 junegem .317 DrStrange01 .298 Pam .292 Tiamet .291 Caterina .255 rokrchik .252 Myzteree .244 meova1 .206

[Odie]

I am rooting for Lena this year.
I just took the trip down your memory lane and noticed that she finished 2nd for all 3 years!
As for myself, I am going to try to participate and hope to get on the final ranking list
Go Lena! Go Lena!

[Metropolis Man]

It is kind of amazing she has been so consistent for so long. A phenomenal player for sure. It would be awesome if all the truly great past heavy hitters like NancyJ and Claymask were all here at the same time, but alas...this is a game and player's interests often change.

[Metropolis Man]

With the Gnome challenge now in the books....that makes 3 events finished for this year and I was able to post the World Ranking for all players who participated in those events. Grats to everyone on the list.

[Deklitch]

well, as they say in the classics, the only way for me is up.

Congrats to everyone, particularly Simblip, Lena, Drift and Ricalynn.

[LenaLJ]

Ohh we are so close
Cant wait to see what happends after the next challenges.

[bealeywife]

Hi! I looked and I'm not on the list even though I've participated in all three of the challenges.

[Metropolis Man]

Hi! I looked and I'm not on the list even though I've participated in all three of the challenges.

Checking my spreadsheet now...thank you for catching that

[Metropolis Man]

The World Ranking has been updated to include results from the photography challenge.

[Metropolis Man]

I just updated the world ranking to include result from the job challenge that finished yesterday. The big news is Lena grabbed first place from SimBlip....but by a hundredth of a point!  It's a very tight race. I am really happy with the participation this year everyone..thank you so much.

[Metropolis Man]

I updated the world ranking to include the results of Metro's Haven. SimBlip's win in that event was enough to barely steal back 1st place from LenaLJ, but it's so close at the top...an amazing race for the championship at the end of the year.

[Metropolis Man]

The World Ranking is updated with Rica's Challenge now over. LenaLJ took back first place after this most recent win.

[Metropolis Man]

The world ranking has been updated with the We're Coming to Collect challenge now finished. No changes at the top of the heap but quite a few players earned a world ranking since the collecting challenging was their 3rd event finished. Grats to all of you.

[Metropolis Man]

With Wishmasters now in the bag, I updated the world ranking. I carried out Lena and Simblip's score one more place to show everyone just how crazy close they are. It all boils down to the last 2 events. Good luck to you both as well as everyone else.

[Metropolis Man]

I updated the world ranking this morning with the results of the At Your Service challenge. Grats to LenaLJ and Nutella for sharing the championship. Lena has also competed in all events of the season and the At Your Service event was #11 of the year, so because world ranking is based on a player's top 10 events I was able to drop her lowest score. A couple other players were also able to take advantage of that fact. Blackrosea moved up in the rankings with a very solid performances in this event, so go team!