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CircularLogic

Joined: Aug 22, 2003

Posted: Nov 24, 2008 - 10:31

I just thought about something.. could the following be added to the distance formula: +(#of handicaps)/50

While 5TS feels 'about right' most of the times, often this initial roll can hand a significant advantage to one of the teams. Reducing the score by 20 per handicap would give genuine matches precedence over handicap-balanced.

Shivkala

Joined: Jun 07, 2007

Posted: Nov 24, 2008 - 12:23

I fully support the idea of adding handicaps to the distance formula.

I hate playing games with -10-15TS but +2 handicaps (or vice versa) as it seems to happen often in the scheduler (especially against teams that typically have a large TR/TS difference like Ogre).
The variety in usefulness of the handicaps is just too big to put a 5TS tag next to it to make it fair.

Pro511

Joined: Aug 14, 2006

Posted: Nov 25, 2008 - 02:19

Is the scheduling formula public knowledge?

I'm not suggesting that it should be if it's not. Just curious as to whether or not I missed it.

Thanks.

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pythrr

Joined: Mar 07, 2006

Posted: Nov 25, 2008 - 02:22

some are more useful than 5, the majority are less, imho.

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funnyfingers

Joined: Nov 13, 2005

Posted: Nov 25, 2008 - 05:05

http://fumbbl.com/FUMBBL.php?page=match&id=2436049

Just throwing this out there. In the IRC I agree that every team needs to play their kryptonite. My argument was that 9 tackles nulify dodge, therefore making the calculation of Amazon blodge too high since they get calculated with a 1.5 X multiplier. Like I said no need for an argument, just throwing it out there if it helps Christer any.

pythrr

Joined: Mar 07, 2006

Posted: Nov 25, 2008 - 05:20

die zons die. games vs dorfs makes up for all the games zons play vs non tackle teams at low TS that they win easily due to their starting blodgers.

SillySod

Joined: Oct 10, 2006

Posted: Nov 25, 2008 - 05:28

Pro511 wrote:

Is the scheduling formula public knowledge?

I'm not suggesting that it should be if it's not. Just curious as to whether or not I missed it.

Thanks.

Yes. Christer explains it in this thread.

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CircularLogic

Joined: Aug 22, 2003

Posted: Nov 25, 2008 - 07:48

Another tweaking suggestion:
Make the cutoff for weighted TS. At the moment zons can play against dwarves 15TS up while dwarves can play vs zons with a 15TS advantage tops, too. Using the TS difference weighted by the racial table as a cutoff, zons for example could play against dwarves with a maximum TS disadvantage of 5TS, while dwarves could give up up to 25TS to zons in order to have the same disadvantage.

funnyfingers

Joined: Nov 13, 2005

Posted: Nov 27, 2008 - 02:59

Where do you come up with the racial table making it a 5ts and 25ts difference?

CircularLogic wrote:

Another tweaking suggestion:
Make the cutoff for weighted TS. At the moment zons can play against dwarves 15TS up while dwarves can play vs zons with a 15TS advantage tops, too. Using the TS difference weighted by the racial table as a cutoff, zons for example could play against dwarves with a maximum TS disadvantage of 5TS, while dwarves could give up up to 25TS to zons in order to have the same disadvantage.

CircularLogic

Joined: Aug 22, 2003

Posted: Nov 27, 2008 - 09:41

Those values were just to illustrate what I meant. The actual values differ not only from racial matchup to racial matchup, but also from TS bracket to TS bracket.