Power Ranking
Power Ranking is a feature that was introduced in 2011 to attempt to rank players for how good they were at
the Loser Pool over their entire career. The formula has been tweaked a few times to try to come up with a list
that "feels right."
At the end of the day, Power Ranking is about one thing only -- bragging rights. A player's
Power Ranking does not affect the amount of money they can win. The only other thing that takes Power Ranking
into account is the Chief of the Bandwagon Badge, where if there is a tie for Chief, the chief is the tied player
whose Power Ranking is the highest.
Power Ranking is calculated by awarding Power Points to every player based on their actions in the Loser Pool.
Players are then ordered by the number of Power Points they have and ranked. Power points can be earned (and LOST)
in the following ways (subject to change):
| Action/Factor |
Power Points |
| 1st Place Finish |
25.00 |
| 2nd Place Finish |
10.00 |
| Season Played |
4.00 |
| Correct Pick |
1.00 |
| Every Dollar Won |
0.25 |
| Correct %* |
-150.00 to +150.00* |
| Per Each Point of your Average Margin of Defeat |
6.00 |
| Allow a Pick to be Set by System |
-0.50 |
| Post a Talk Message |
0.40 |
| Like a Talk Message |
0.10 |
| Have Your Talk Message Liked by Someone |
0.20 |
| Refer Another Player |
5.00 |
* You may note that the Correct Percentage has a range. The Correct Percentage takes your lifetime record into account,
but normalizes it so that new players don't have such wild swings. How this works is that every player has an expected
Correct Percentage of 50.0%. If the player's percentage is
exactly that, then 0 Power Points will be earned. If the player has a better record then that, they will gain Power Points.
If their record is worse, they will LOSE Power Points. The number of points gained or lost is calculated like this:
Points = (CorrectPercentage - 50.0%) *
(min(50, max(totalPicksMade, totalPicksMade-50))
/ 50) * 3.00;
This is basically just a fancy way of saying two things:
- Your Correct Percentage minus 50.0 times 3.00 is how many Power Points you will earn at full magnitude. So at full magnitude, a perfect Correct Percentage of 100% would earn you:
(100% - 50.0%) * 3.00 = 150.00 Points.
A Correct Percentage, of, say, 78.3% would earn you:
(78.3% - 50.0%) * 3.00 = 84.90 Points.
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Your magnitude ramps up at a linear rate until you've reached 50 total lifetime picks.
In other words, do the calculation above, then multiply by min(1, TotalPicks/50). Once
you've reached 50 total lifetime picks, you will be at full magnitude forever.