Lost 100 Elo

Your Zero Wars game didn't affect your Ladder Elo, the FFAs did. The ladder elo change is also never a direct result from a single battle, but most likely in this case it was rather direct from the FFAs.

Your elo was so disparately high that you had a 50%+ win chance, even though there were 4-5 players in the game. So these games are the equivalent of losing a 1v1 to a slightly worse player. In the rating formula, you can approximate the weight of a game to be linear with the number of players, so each of these FFAs was roughly equivalent to losing 10 balanced 10v10s in a row.

If you want your casual rating to be less impacted by such single events you can either play more 1v1/FFA or play a lot more team games. Otherwise there is always the problem that 1v1/FFA contains a lot more "information" per battle than big teams and the rating will thus cling to those results.

20*

where did you see you elo the last time?

anyway:



LIFEHACK! if you want to deflate your elo, just lose some FFAs vs people with relatively low elo compared to yours!

Playing more 1v1 and FFA is a win-win situation since the player gets faster rating changes and the rating system a more accurate rating for team games. Please do "abuse" it.

Match fixing is inherently more efficient when you don't have teammates softening up your actions. It has to be handled by admins independent of the game mode where it happens. Please don't abuse it.

quote: Playing more 1v1 and FFA is a win-win situation since the player gets faster rating changes and the rating system a more accurate rating for team games.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. 1v1 and FFA is for balancing team games.

It's fascinating how ZK attracts all the strangest ideas for an RTS.

Team games lack the information to balance team games. The rating system needs to get that information somewhere.

I don't dispute that overall the teamgame prediction gets better when ffa games are included in the rating. Ffa skill translates well into being good at lategame teams.

But that doesn't exclude the possibility of high-rated individuals abusing the system by making ffa a rating dumping-ground.

You can dump your ratings in any game mode, 1v1 being even more effective than FFA. This is a thing for admins to deal with.

So that's why Kingstad is always suicidal in FFA...