Point System

The point system is pretty basic but yet maybe hard to explain. The point system used on here is not trying to display the best TSB player in the universe, just the best player that actually plays regularly on here. I'll do my best to try to explain this.

Monthly Polls

The monthly polls are used to generate a scoring scale (based on a ten point system) for the people who played games within the last month. There are three polls; one for each version of the game. The polls are broken down as such.

---> Rank (R): The ranking of the players based on their overall point value

---> Name (Name): The name of the players ranked (duh!)

---> Points (P): The total point value the player has accumulated in the past month

---> Strength Of Schedule (SOS): The point value of the player, which is used to determine how much the player is worth if you decide to play them.

If you would like to know how the SOS is calculated technically, I can show you my actual code sometime. It is somewhat complicated, but there are definitely no tricks or turns that I put it through. Generally, the SOS is based on the top player's point value and the bottom player's point value. The SOS is then determined on a 10 point scale whereever a player is based inside that range. The top player always gets a 10 for being on the top and the bottom player(s)' SOS is determined in a mathmatical way depending how small their score is. All you need to know is how to read the Monthly Poll tables.

So say SconnieAle and Edsaurusrex want to play a good friendly game of TSB 2. SconnieAle is currently ranked 1st and has a point value of 20 and a SOS of 10. Edisaurusrex is ranked 8th and has a point value of 6 and a SOS of 3. Considering they played having even teams, there are three possible outcomes:

---> SconnieAle Wins: Sconnie would then win Ed's SOS (+3) and (+3) would be applied towards his point value (20 + 3 = 23) and Ed would lose his SOS (-3) and (-3) would be applied towards his point value (6 - 3 = 3).

---> Edisaurusrex Wins: Ed would then win Sconnie's SOS (+10) and (+10) would be applied towards his point value (6 + 10 = 16) and Sconnie would lose his SOS (-10) and (-10) would be applied towards his point value (20 - 10 = 10).

---> They Tie: No points would be awarded no matter what their rank and SOS.

There are only two expections to how points are awarded:

#1) If either players have never played or haven't played in month and aren't ranked on the Monthly Polls, the game will only be worth (.1).

#2)The other exception is an adjustment applied to the points awarded based on uneven teams. This is called the X-Factor!

X-Factor

Since not all teams are even, you have to make adjustments to how to calculate the points given to a team who won having an uneven team. I have ranked all the teams based on their respective versions, and I have giving them odds of winning based on being compared to the "best team" in that current game. So the Bills are the best team in TSB 1. So if I played as the Bills and I played myself as the Bills, both teams would have the same odds of winning. But if the Bills played the Saints, the Bills have 1:1 odds and the Saints have 2:1 odds. So, if the Bills won, they would win 100% of the opposing player's SOS. If the Saints win, however, they would win 200% of the opposing player's SOS. So let's say in the example above, Sconnie had the Bills and Ed had the Saints. If Sconnie wins, he would still win +3 from Ed and Ed would still lose -3. But if Ed won, he would win +20 from Sconnie and Sconnie would lose -20.

All-Time Rankings

On the home page, next to the link to the Monthly Poll, you will see three links for Tecmo 1, Tecmo 2 and Tecmo 3. These are the All-Time Rankings based on total points earned throughout the lifespan of TecmoHaven. I would say that the All-Time Rankings try to tell who are the best players ever on this site, and the Monthly Polls show the best players at the moment.

Adjusting Scoring

Since the X-Factor rating scale is not perfect (probably not even close at this moment!), means that this scale will probably be continuously adjusted. I have written a program to recalculate the points whenever the X-Factor ever changes. So don't totally base any of your decisions on playing somebody solely on the X-Factor since they most likely will change in the future.