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The one I *really* want to try but it would require a lot of research and math for is a “free agent tournament”. Essentially, each player enters individually, and players are assigned their team+match. The assignments are not random, they’re determined by the outcomes and are handled by an...

I had just finished my last season of high level TF2 Highlander and I wanted out. 9v9 is stressful, I wanted something simpler. Splatoon’s first trailer came out and I fell in love, the complimentary gameplay with emphasis on movement made it an instant buy for me. A 4v4 movement shooter with...

It is! Sendouq uses raw OpenSkill points (well, an affine transform on it but basically raw!) as its SP rating. That’s why it does such a good job at rating players, even if players don’t like that sometimes they win and only get 0.07 SP for the win or if they see higher level players get more...

To add to this excellent post, one of the most common complaints I saw before the xp update was going 3-0, 3-0, 3-0, then 2-3 and having a net loss of points. People called this broken, when in reality it’s expected if unintuitive. If you keep showing the system that it’s wrong about where...

The criticism of glicko-2 for 4v4 is more about the speed of convergence. Being a Bayesian system, it already naturally incorporates uncertainty. It can definitely still be used for 4v4 with minor modification, it just throws away a lot of potentially useful information with teammate data. It...

Squidbagging is whatever, it’s a metastrategy that only works when someone allows it to work. There’s an argument to be made about it being poor sportsmanship but since matchmaking is all about Ws and not about reputation, it’s a zero-consequence metastrategy that will probably improve your...

We don’t actually know if it calculates XP updates using a clamped glicko-2, we know it uses glicko-2 as a factor but not how it’s using it under the hood. But no this wouldn’t be an evolution of glicko: clamping results with arbitrary, fixed values undermines the Bayesian base of glicko...

I’ve been working on this for about a year, I needed a production-grade Splatnet 3 scraper and s3s wasn’t up to the task, so it’s kind of a behemoth project to do alone (SplatNet3_Scraper alone is over 10 thousand lines of code!). Slowly working up to it though, a lot of my time is also taken up...

It is! Here’s the splatnet API I developed for this: https://github.com/cesaregarza/SplatNet3_Scraper And here’s my progress on the GUI: https://github.com/cesaregarza/DataZipcaster/tree/feature/gui

Every system has issues, but there’s an infrastructure pipeline that needs to be up to mitigate the majority. The first is a global tournament registry that’s easy to interface with, which Sendou is currently working on. The next would be a player identification system, which we can do via...

This is because at 1900 you’re the best player in the lobby and at 2000 you’re the worst player in the lobby. Splitting matchmaking like that creates a sink where it’s easy to get stuck in

There was a project that was to automate this, it used a Bluetooth controller to move the squid and make the movements automatically, then record to a capture card. I wish I could remember who was making it and how far they got along, though it would require volunteers to have a switch and...

Please don’t be discouraged by SP, even if it’s low! SP is a measure of relative skill, so it only compares you against other people in SendouQ, all of which are in the top 1% of players (probably). Please feel free to ask for any help in the Sendou.ink discord helpdesk, if it’s SP related I’ll...

It’s not actually! The gold standard is either EloMMR or TrueSkill 2, depending if you want a battle tested measure or not. Glicko-2 is vulnerable to volatility farming, which I suspect the latest update to X battles actually makes it more vulnerable to. New accounts are able to reach Top 10 in...

No, people will still be mad at it. I often answer concerns and complaints about sendouq on the helpdesk, and even knowing how the sausage is made people don’t like it. It’s not just a mathematical/systems issue, but also one of player perception and perspective. Both sides of the coin are...