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New Feature - Pyramid Table Rankings

Editorial by Mike Tycoon

If you've played many of the other sports sims online, you may be familiar with the concept of a pyramid league structure for rankings. We'll be adding this as a feature in the near future for both managers and alliances.

For both types, we'll have leagues of 8 managers, with 1 top division, 3 second divisions, 9 third divisions, 27 fourth divisions etc, down to level 7 for managers and however many levels we need for alliances (probably 3).

Each season will last 1 month, starting on the first day of the month with one manager being promoted and 3 being relegated from each division. We will also take into account inactive managers, so sometimes the second placed manager will also be promoted.

I've always wanted to do this structure but never got round to it because I couldn't think of a suitable scoring system. I came up with something today that I'm happy with, so here goes;

# 3 points for a win
# 1 point for a draw
# + or - a point for a finish or being finished
# A bonus of 1-8 points for each manager in the league, based on their opponent's hype (based on the fighter rather than the manager)
# This applies up to 10 fights in the month. After 10 fights, the points are adjusted to be an average points score over 10 fights

Hopefully this additional league structure provides some added interest and jepoardy to managers of all levels. Likewise, the addition of a league structure for alliances will provide a much requested level of competition between alliances.

Trophies will be awarded for promotions and obviously the ultimate league title too! Initial league placings will be calculated based on current manager rankings and the first season (for managers only, not alliances) will start on the 1st of April.

In the meantime, you'll find a link to your current beta testing league on your manager profile page, next to your existing rankings.



Other updates coming soon:
Private Jets (not far off).
Improvements to takedowns and the ground game (discuss in the forums if you have some thoughts).
Improvement to event rating calculations, specifically to do with attendances (to stop LA having such a massive advantage).
Improvement to popularity increase from fighting cans, basically so there's less point fighting cans.

 

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