How exactly does "Global Smash Power" work, anyway?

[Jdaster64]

As it was described in the Smash Direct back in April (as far as I recall), GSP is supposed to be a measure of where you rank from the bottom up, compared to everyone else who's gotten score in the mode. However, I'm curious as to how accurate that value is, especially when it's being calculated on the fly within a mode. I can understand that it would have to be estimated in some way during play, as I imagine the database lookups or whatever required to fetch an exact rank every time you gain score would be far too time-consuming.

However, after having done a really long Endless Multi-Man Smash run, it seems really arbitrary in its estimation; after I hit around 510,000 GSP / 300 KOs, it just started giving me exactly 7 GSP per kill (occasionally 6) up until I died at 889. Anyone else experience some weird inconsistencies in the GSP scoring?

 

[TeaTwoTime]

My understanding is that a GSP of 500,000 means your score is better than the lowest 500,000 scores that have been recorded. Simple as that. The ranks seem to be stored locally and are updated when you go online. I could be wrong, though, so someone feel free to correct me if so!

 

[Wanderer from Roseyard]

It somehow updates your GSP even when the system's wi-fi is turned off, which is peculiar. Saving all the records locally seems impractical when you consider it would have to log that many scores for every character in every mode. It's probably some complicated approximation formula.

 

[Wanderer from Roseyard]

Well, I'd hate to double-post to bump a week-old thread, but it's better than starting another.

Has anyone done any tests to confirm if GSP is really placing you among other players or if it's just approximating? It's just odd to me that it can find your ranking even when you're offline, and never updates when you do go online.

Looking at all my Smash Run scores and corresponding GSP, it really looks like it just multiplies your score by an arbitrary multiplier. All of my scores that are over 100,000 yield a GSP that's just above 1,000,000. All of 'em!