Online Player Rankings Thread

[Xorlof]

Hello everyone! We're quite pleased to offer our first public release of the player rankings that we've been using internally for a while. We have rankings for all 177 players who have played in any of the 24 events (totaling more than 1600 games!) we have run, up to and including Season 19. Here, we are just posting the top 35 rankings.

For those who are curious how this works, we are using the

Trueskill

Trueskill

algorithm. This algorithm is based on the idea that everyone has a true playing skill level, but it's difficult to figure out what it is from game results. So, the algorithm estimates a range of what your true playing skill could be. The more you play, the tighter the range of this estimate becomes. The ranking of a player represents a conservative estimate (i.e. towards the bottom of the estimate range) of what that player's true playing skill might be.

We also use the Trueskill Through Time extension of Trueskill (pdf) to calculate rankings more accurately. This means that if you play someone who's 0-0, and then they tear off a huge winning streak, the algorithm will give you credit, in retrospect, for having played a good player.

Anyway, without further delay, here are the top 35 rankings!


EDIT:

Additionally, we now have "recent rankings", comprised of the top 20 players over the last year*:



* Actually, going back to the beginning of the latest event that was at least a year ago, so generally a little more than a year.