Post Rank Change Debate

That's a pretty big drawback if you want to use 2nds as an indicator as to how someone will play in 1sts.

 

This is a fair point, but I think this could fundamentally change the balance of the sim given the way things are built - which is also something I'd like to avoid because I think the balance is pretty good at the moment. In fact, better than last season. I think we may see the occasional upset this season. Or at least the upsets will be more frequent than the 1 or 2 we saw last season (NSW vs. Victoria being the only one which springs to mind).

 

I'm now using a ln(x)^3 calculation to come up with a non-linear relationship for post ranks.

This means that players between about Post Rank 10 and Post Rank 90 will be slightly worse in post rank terms and those from Post Rank 90 onwards will trend towards being better than their raw post rank would suggest.

However, the order will not change. If you're 30th best player now, you will remain the 30th best player. All this will mean is that 2nd grade is less of a joke than it is now.

I will also look to make Raw Post Rank a combination of All Time Post Rank (www.cricsim.com/rusim.php) and the Season's post rank (TBD) to make overall post rank more seasonally based. However, the All Time Post Rank will carry much, much more weight than current season, so the difference this will make is to make completely inactive players slightly worse but those who are reasonably active will remain largely unaffected.

 

I don't have post ranks for each season. Only Seasonal Rugby to date. So, I could bring this in over time, but certainly not as things stand.

 

Important Announcement

Overall post rank will now depend on:

(1) All time player post-rank (published)
(2) Season 5 player post-rank (not published)

I will not be publicising how big an influence each will have on the overall post rank, just that (1) is more important than (2).

As a result, and given the increased importance of short term post rank changes, I will be cracking down on SPAMMING - it is your responsibility to make sure that your posts have more than just a cursory acquaintance with content. There will be no warnings, just infractions. There is no need to report perceived instances of spam, but I would encourage other admins to infract any spammy posts.

 

Effective from when the Contracts thread was opened.