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Since no one can agree, I don't think it makes sense to have any change in April. Let's use April to watch this more closely and think this through properly.
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Well, I do believe that the majority of those that took their time to speak on this, including yourself, do feel that having draws in play are bad for the scene.
It is just a matter of how to proceed with them from this point forward.
You have more pressing matters at hand with 3.60 so I can wait for more elaboration on this at a later date.
UPDATE!!!
As of September 2018 season, we have changed the Best Score system to include Draws, worth 1/3 the Match Score of a Victory in that Match, in your 50-Match score window.
I think there's a lot of rationale above anyway for why a change had to happen, but I want to try to capture it all clearly in one place here from my own perspective, as inventor of the Best Score system in the first place:
Since the previous approach ignored Draws completely, it encouraged players to opt for a Draw instead of playing their matches when both thought this was a good idea, effectively getting a second chance at being paired with nothing lost at all! At best, this let friends agree to both avoid the chance of a loss; at worst, this could be used for collusion!
Regardless of the reasons for a Draw, one thing was for certain: it cheated the Best Score system out of a definitive Winner and Loser for some matches and blurred the capability to find the most worthy players to fill the top ranks. This therefore ran counter to our goal of the Best Score system being the ultimate measure of player skill, performance and reading the meta that month, so we had to change it!
What took so long to address it? We couldn't work out how to count the Draws. In the end, we followed the model of football and many other sports, where a Win is worth 3 times as much as a Draw. This means that in any situation where you might consider a Draw, you have 2/3 to lose if you take a Draw that could have been a Win and only 1/3 to lose if you lose a match that could have been a Draw, which very strongly suggests to both players that it is a better strategy to fight!
Thanks for your patience while we tried to work out the right choice for tackling this!
Last edited by Gondorian; 09-01-2018 at 02:33 PM.
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October season? i thought it should start from September onwards
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