~Scar 说:
Regarding the K

-Ratio I'd like to suggest to set a limitation. Players who only played a single match for example shouldn't be listed in my opinion, I mean everyone can just turn up to one match, play one set and get a good score. Yet that doesn't give you an idea of who actually plays consistently well in matches, which is sort of the purpose of these rankings I suppose. How about only players with 20+ Kills (or respectively 20+ Deaths maybe, though that seems irrelevant in the end) get ranked?
When we did it in the ECS I tried to cover up this problem with some additional information called "reliability score". I think it was your number of rounds played devided through the number of rounds playable in the tournament. So for example one player played in 5 matches, made 50 kills and died 5 times (=K

of 10,0). The other player only played one single set, but made 12 kills and died once. (=K

of 12,0). If you now add the reliability of the first one: Every set in 5 weeks makes 80 rounds out of 128= 0,625 (1 being the maximum reliability, if a player scores 1 he played every set and you can probably take his stats as a true reflection of his performance). The other one, although having a better K

has only 4/128, which is a rather poor reliability of only 0,03.
The way players who only play one time but do brilliantly are honored is usually the K:R-stats. Making 12 kills in only 4 rounds will score you 3,0 (pretty effective), whereas 50 kills in 80 rounds like in our first example (which is still good but not as effective) only give you 0,6. I think that is a fair trade off.
In the end, like with every statistic ever made, it highly depends on what you read out of it, not only what it actually shows.
