And SCOTU what makes your comment any more valid than mine?
Trueskill is a corporately proven system that has not only been applied to many of the top played online games, but is also strongly used in the smash community (AiB ladder uses TrueSkill). Power Rankings do not have this. Furthermore, Trueskill is a system that's fully measurable, and already takes into account things like activity in the scene and difficulty of opponents, all while having the rules laid out in front of the players. In other words, it's entirely up to the players how they're ranked. In contrast, there are no well defined criteria for placing in a Power Ranking. It's up to other people to evaluate how you performed. Furthermore, Power rankings will result in situations like: Player A beats many people that Player B cannot, but Player B beats player A. It's not always clear to subjective qualitative reasoning which of the two are better. A quantitative system has no such problems. Moreover, a quantitative system provides more than a power ranking does. A power ranking provides a list of top X in order with some honorable mentions. A quantitative system provides a ranking of every player, allowing tournaments to be better seeded from the ground up, and giving lower people in the scene something to measure against.
And this is coming from a retired Melee player. That's kinda funny.
I don't see what this has to do with anything. If anything it means that I've been around the scene for a while, and given my involvement with both the Melee and Brawl scene (even if i barely played brawl, it doesn't mean I wasn't heavily involved with the Midwest Brawl scene, mind you). Keep in mind that I was one of the most successful MI brawl TOs, something that requires knowledge of brawl players. Given that and that I was both a founding member of the Brawl Smash Lab and that I was a member of the brawl back room before being in the Melee Back room, It's not really fair to just label me only as a Melee player that knows nothing of brawl (if that's even what your point is; idk, arguments about something rankings are unrelated to being a Melee player).
And just I didn't post my reasoning behind it doesn't mean its logicless.
No, but something without reasoning is intrinsically logicless
Lain,Tutu, L_ and other discussed this last night and they agree. Or at least open to the idea of reinstating a PR.
I'm not against it. I just wanted to make sure you have some **** good arguments before you try to throw out something like an existing trueskill ranking system in favor of something that people normally opt for because it's an easier escape than trueskill (i.e. it seems like it's less work).
