Hi all,
I just wanted to give a brief update on what we are doing about the Rating/Score system, which has long been an area where players have rightfully asked for something better. We are very much committed to improving things and wish to outline our plan.
For the month of September:
* The in-game Rating and Score system will appear exactly the same. There will be the usual Rating Reset at the start of the month and players can climb the Score/Rating ladder as they have done in previous months.
* Behind the scenes, based on match history, we will be calculating alternative leaderboards based on win-rate and other factors with the intention of evaluating potential replacements for the in-game score/ranking to be implemented within the app in a future update. This could be division-based or score-based (with a new formula) or win-rate based or something else. Whatever system we end up using, players would still be paired via Rating as before, so it will be possible to properly evaluate these differing options even with derived game result data.
* There will be prizes for those who do well on our various different leaderboards (which will be intended to better represent your skill and performance than the current Rating system), so if you aim to do your best and play a lot to demonstrate how good you are then you could be in line for some prizes at the end of the month. Once each new leaderboard is being calculated, we will of course share them to help you see how you are doing.
From October onwards:
* We will take what we have learned from September and make some changes. I'd like to be more specific, but I don't want to constrain what we may come up with at this point.
Any feedback you have on this is gratefully received and good luck to all who play in September!
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