Would this advantage or disadvantage your team? From previous posts, I assume the former.

Where are the Team Heroes stats for 30 Nov ?

Thanks, I couldn't see any way to click through to this page.

"Note, Terry & Wes, the discrepancy I noted last month popped up again this month, the score on the Team Info page is different from the total listed on that page linked above. This is true in every game. The discrepancy is small, but it's there."

Yes, I tracked it this month. It was fine until the last day when it went awry.

This may be a red herring but what happens if someone changes teams in the middle of the month? Could it account for these small differences?

Terry, on the team stats page, the link for yesterday's Word Wizard scores go to Piece of Cake. Can you please correct this.
Many thanks!

Final Standings for Team vs Team competition are in place but the placement named on the Team pages is out of whack. Mossbacks finished 1st but it reads 19th on their page. Worldwide Wizards were second but it says 7th...which is where the Funsters ended up. Devious Demons says 1st place on their page.

It's still connected to the old TvT game rather than the monthly standings.

HairyBear: For the last time, the scoring table has been chosen and set with a purpose. That purpose is not to reward a specific team or punish any specific team but to reward quality over quantity and provide a good game balance with the current participation figures and those we expect to see over the next few years.

100 out of 160 (assuming a full League A table) is more than 62%. Or, to use the converse, a performance in the bottom 38% of the table will net you only a participation score. Being average (80th) or better will net you at least a 20.

The extra points for top 10, compared to a linear count to 100, add up to 110 (+20 for 1st, +18 for 2nd, and so on down to +2 for 10th). The sum of the base 1 to 100 is 5,050. That means the top 10 bonus is a mere 2.13% of the overall points awarded to the top 100 players. This is a small bonus, mostly intended to provide a little extra motivation to make multiple attempts at the hourlies instead of stopping after getting a score possibly good for 25th or 30th place on your first try "because it won't make a real difference anyway".

We have duly and repeatedly noted that you would prefer a different balance. However we are currently happy with this aspect of the system and see no reason to change it. The old scores which were used in the Team of the Year standings were scaled to a much larger player base and, as a result of declining numbers, rewarded raw player count over actual skill. In particular, being unable to fill your maximum number was practically synonymous with not being able to compete for top spots - in some games, especially the Gold Member ones, participation was down to around 100, meaning that any nonzero score was good for half of what the top player would receive and thus indirectly adding a very undesirable and unintended "pay to win" component to the lists.

As to the bug reports, Terry will get to them when he has the time. Thanks to samak for the observation that the discrepancy only showed on the last day - this might be very helpful in finding the reason.

By the way, I just looked at the final tables from last month and the standings show that the scoring system is working as intended. Out of the four divisions, only "B" shows a significant bias towards larger teams scoring higher. In "C", both the largest and the second smallest team earned promotion, while in "A", the four largest teams finished 2nd, 8th, 9th and 19th. A half-strength team (3 actives) finished 10th out of 33 in "C".

Success in the leagues is primarily based on a mixture of player skill and being able to motivate the team to give their best every day - and that's what it was meant to be.

Is it possible to create a "One stop shop" for the team competition games in which one may find out ones scores for the day?

Looking at the team chart for group B for December it lists "new game" as one of our team games for the month but on my main page it doesn't show the icon next to the new game. Not sure if it is just me but figured others would want to know they needed to play the new game this month. BTD

As a team we don’t have a problem with the new system. Sometimes odd members complain about a game they are normally not very good at, but everyone has a game they either don’t like or score badly in, I must admit I pulled a face when I saw “Mind Melt” & “Word Wizard” included this month. My view is it’s only for that month and we are all here for a bit of fun.

For the good of the system and humanity, I vote that those awards stand as they are.

Division A trophies added to team info pages.

testing posting.

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