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Mean Minis (2020) Author
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Location: India | Updated LMI Puzzle Ratings after Magic Cube (July 2011 LMI puzzle test #2) are now available.
The Top Five: 1. motris, 2. deu, 3. uvo, 4. MellowMelon, 5. Nikola
India Top Five: 1. Rohan, 2. Rakesh, 3. Rajesh, 4. Amit, 5. Jaipal |
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Location: United States | For the goals of keeping a consistent rating, can I make a request that test authors keep control of the base scoring of tests (and twists like Puzzle Jackpot and Twist and such are ok as this is the base value), but that LMI admins set the value of time bonus (which is really just serving a role of standardizing scores from month to month) with a fixed standard for all tests? When set by authors, we get such a wide wide range of these values which are really problematic for comparing tests. The upcoming sudoku test has a 3x value for time bonus compared to puzzle minutes, so finishers will benefit excessively. Past tests have had closer to 0x value for time bonus compared to puzzle minutes, so finishers are punished excessively. Is total value/total time that hard a ratio to fix? Time bonus will never affect the ranks in a given test (which is why 1000 points a minute or .0001 points a minute could be chosen by test authors if they wanted) but it does affect the yearly rankings which is why it should not be a variable in the constructor's mind at all. |
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Location: India | Very valid argument, we will do that.
For Sudoku City, Nikola had asked me to review the bonus system, but I had missed it completely. I'll get it rectified. Thanks for bringing it up. And it indeed helps when the anomalies are brought up before the test itself, so that we can get it fixed as needed.
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Mean Minis (2020) Author
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Location: India | motris - 2011-08-01 11:31 PM
I think a consistent rating needs to be fair for solvers at the top and in the middle. The top is suited ok with the system as is with absolute top score contributing a lot more than rank score, rewarding a very good performance. The middle is suited ok by using the median score as the measure of 500, instead of actual score/top score which is where the median might drop to 300 or 400 on an exceptional test day. And the rank score further brings back the front-runner a bit and also separates ties by score (but not time) in the middle.
I think drastic changes from the current formula will result in a worse ranking system either for the top, or for the middle, based on the test data we have for the last 15 months. At most, I might like to see modeled what would happen if a third inflection point was built into the system, perhaps at the 1st standard deviation above and below the median, equaling another set of fixed score points. My guess is that the middle and top are stable but players at 70-85% in rank are more affected by test to test variation outside of their own performance. Very nicely put.
Just one question: when you say 70-85% in rank, do you mean those ranked 71st-85th (out of 100) or those ranked 15th-30th? And, I would also like to know the degree (slightly/moderately/heavily) to which they are affected, so that we can think of further improvements at some point of time. |
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Location: United States | rakesh_rai - 2011-08-02 11:52 PM
motris - 2011-08-01 11:31 PM
I think a consistent rating needs to be fair for solvers at the top and in the middle. The top is suited ok with the system as is with absolute top score contributing a lot more than rank score, rewarding a very good performance. The middle is suited ok by using the median score as the measure of 500, instead of actual score/top score which is where the median might drop to 300 or 400 on an exceptional test day. And the rank score further brings back the front-runner a bit and also separates ties by score (but not time) in the middle.
I think drastic changes from the current formula will result in a worse ranking system either for the top, or for the middle, based on the test data we have for the last 15 months. At most, I might like to see modeled what would happen if a third inflection point was built into the system, perhaps at the 1st standard deviation above and below the median, equaling another set of fixed score points. My guess is that the middle and top are stable but players at 70-85% in rank are more affected by test to test variation outside of their own performance. Very nicely put.
Just one question: when you say 70-85% in rank, do you mean those ranked 71st-85th (out of 100 ) or those ranked 15th-30th? And, I would also like to know the degree (slightly/moderately/heavily ) to which they are affected, so that we can think of further improvements at some point of time.
By 70-85% in rank I meant those with a rank score around 700 to 850. So 15th to 30th place in your out of 100 example. |
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Mean Minis (2020) Author
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Location: India | Updated LMI Sudoku Ratings after Sudoku City (August 2011 LMI sudoku test) are now available.
The Top five: 1. motris, 2. nikola, 3. purifire, 4. deu, 5. misko
India Top five: 1. Rishi, 2. Rohan, 3. Rakesh, 4. Gaurav, 5. Sumit |
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Mean Minis (2020) Author
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Location: India | Updated LMI Puzzle Ratings after Japanese Puzzle Land (August 2011 LMI puzzle test) are now available.
xevs is the only new name in the Top 10.
Rohan Rao at #43 is the top ranked puzzler from India. |
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Location: India | anand2100 - 2011-08-30 11:50 AM
How to know my LMI rating?
Didn't you register at LMI few minutes back? |
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Mean Minis (2020) Author
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Location: India | Updated LMI Puzzle Ratings after Sprint Test (September 2011 LMI puzzle test) are now available.
MellowMelon sprints to the third place.
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Mean Minis (2020) Author
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Location: India | Updated LMI Sudoku Ratings after Crazy Arrows (September 2011 LMI sudoku test) are now available.
532 players representing 50 countries are now a part of the ratings. motris and nikola remain #1 and #2 repectively, and deu moved up to #3.
Amongst the heavy gainers, ppeetteerr gained 203 rating points to move to #40, and tarotaro gained 164 rating points to move up to #76.
USA has 6 players in the Top 50, while Japan and India have 5 each. Germany has 4 players in the Top 50. |
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Mean Minis (2020) Author
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Location: India | Updated LMI Sudoku Ratings after A or B (October 2011 LMI sudoku test) are now available.
motris inched closer to the 1000 mark, gaining one point to reach 993. deu and Nikola exchanged places and are within a point of each other now. jaku111 and uvo, both made major gains to enter the Top 10. Four of the top 10 have palindromic ratings (which read the same whether read from left or right).
TiiT (palindrome again) who finished 2nd in A or B, gained 36 rating points to move to #15. Gotroch has a rating of 888 (which is a flush in poker). Hunsudoku, tarotaro, SCORPPROCS (another palindrome), tilansia and spelvin all gained over 100 points and should be rapidly moving towards the top in the coming months.
Among players from India, Rohan moved to within 2 points of 900 and is ranked 8th now. Prasanna gained 27 points. |
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Location: India | Ratings are updated after Double Decathlon - Link
I would wait till Rakesh double checks once and make it official. |
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Location: India | Ratings updated after ST#2
No changes in top 5, though all top 5 have 900+ ratings. |
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Location: India | Sudoku
1. 9 out of the top 10 of WSC are active on LMI.
2. The top 6 players of LMI Sudoku Ratings appeared in the WSC 2011 Playoffs.
3. 8 of the top 10 in WSC 2011 are in the top 15 of LMI Sudoku Ratings.
Puzzle
1. All 10 players of WPC playoffs are active on LMI.
2. The top 4 players of LMI Puzzle Ratings appeared in the WPC 2011 Playoffs.
3. 9 of the top 10 in WPC 2011 are in the top 20 of LMI Puzzle Ratings.
Not bad! |
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Location: India | Rohan Rao - 2011-11-20 1:13 PM
Not bad!
ditto! |
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Location: India | That gives a real good feeling............. |
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Location: India | Ratings update after Puzzle Fusion available here
We'll spend some time checking it manually before making this as default ratings.
The most significant change at the top is that MellowMelon moves to #2 position ahead of deu. Also, xevs gained 19 points to have ratings of 919. |
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Location: India | Sudoku ratings updated after December Test.
motris continues his dominance and retains the top spot throughout the year.
Edited by debmohanty 2011-12-22 12:58 PM
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Location: India | LMI Puzzle ratings are updated now
No changes in top 3, but MellowMelon inches toward motris.
xevs gains lot of ratings and takes the 4th place now |
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Location: India | We have a technical problem, and it will take a while to update the ratings this time (and may be in future as well) |
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Location: India | Puzzle Ratings are updated after Marathon. No changes in top 5. |
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Location: India | Also added Ratings History in profile page. |
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Location: India | Sudoku Ratings updated after Diagonal Vision
TiiT moves to top5 after impressive performances.
Among players from India, Prasanna moves into top50 after few good tests. |
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Location: United States | what does a little orange bar by the name in the rankings mean? I'll send a picture of what i mean
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