2015 League Post Game Results Here

Cyanight (Allies +22) over Pherman1215 (Axis)

I gave him about 3 weeks and no response. Really hate winning this way but it is the rules.

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=36477.0

Man alive, how many games did he abandon?

Looks like 5.

I also have to eventually claim a win, but if he returns and wishes so, we will continue the game, of course.

Shin Ji tries punching above his weight, and gets creamed!

Axis Dominion (Axis) over Shin Ji (Allies +24)

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=36627.new#new

Man, forget about Dark Skies.  That’s child’s play to counter compared to this economic slow growth strat!

Axis dominion (Allies + 23) over BerntBernt

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=36588.60

I will report the game against Pherman now. At this point, its unlikely he will come back, but if he does and so wishes, the game will continue. Gamerman, pls take it from rankings in this case.
The game itself was not leaning heavily in either sides favor, I think.

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=36378.0

Giallo (allies+23) over mitler(axis)

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=36314.0

hmm, let’s see…before pherman ever showed up, i was a tier E. then he comes along and it’s pretty clear from having played him 3 times that he is at least a tier 1, if not an E himself. he drops out with a bunch of games hanging, and now as a result i have lost my E status. this was just not handled properly. anyone who has played him, or seen his play, will readily attest that he is certainly not a tier 2. what we are seeing in the rankings is not a correction, as you say, but rather a corruption.

there definitely needs to be a better way to handle situations like this. i have worked very hard all season to reach that status, having now 50 games under my belt with many, many wins, and yet something way beyond my control took place and BAM, just like that, i get knocked back down.

this has been a big turn off for me.

Gamerman01, 12/12/23
The Tiers were never meant to be status.
The purpose of tiers is to help get accurate PPG’s for everyone so strength of opponent is taken into account.
If you want to measure your strength, that is PPG in relation to others. Not tier.

Giallo (allies) over axis-dominion (axis)

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=36512.180

Gamerman01 - axis-dominion won

And now one ragequit is compounded by another.

Axis was STOMPING Giallo.  STOMPING.  Like Axis had 235, and Allies had 130.  I can’t believe the game was even still going.

I think Axis-Dominion totally has a point, tho.  I think we need a rule that games that are not finished, for whatever reason, simply won’t count in the absence of an official ruling.  It isn’t fair to them than Pherman’s bugout caused the huge drop.

seems to me, if you are a top player who happens to be very active in the league and therefore willing to play some of his games a tier or two lower, in the end you have a much greater chance of getting punished for it and knocked down a tier. by necessity, an active top player MUST be willing to play a tier or two lower, as most of the top players barely play…they are “too busy” to play more than a game or two at the same time, and each game they play can go on for many months.

if you are a top player who has played only a handful of other top players (like Juan, who has purposely kept his league games very low and instead plays a lot more outside of the league), then you will be safe.

this league rewards the latter while punishing the former.

i am a very active player, but now i am seeing that this is at odds with my wanting to stay at the top. i have to choose one or the other: 1) either slow it down a lot and be very picky about whom i play against, so as to stay at the top, or 2) be very active and most likely suffer ranking because of it.

definitely a big turn off for me.

In any case, Axis-Dominion, I also think it should be handled differently when someone goes out like Pherman. His status should be frozen, not changed as a result of all those default losses. You have to assume he is tier 1, thats what he reached with his games, that should be used.

If you win like I did today, give me his tier 1 points (sorry, subjective in this case).
If you have won games / lost games, like Axis had, dont adjust those games in a ngeative way for Axis. His total points vs Pherman should stand.

yes, or perhaps a cutoff for damage control…maybe cap it at 3 claims or something like that? i mean, it took a lot of claims before he finally dropped to tier 2…that just shows how solid his tier 1 status was.

@alexgreat:

In any case, Axis-Dominion, I also think it should be handled differently when someone goes out like Pherman. His status should be frozen, not changed as a result of all those default losses. You have to assume he is tier 1, thats what he reached with his games, that should be used.

If you win like I did today, give me his tier 1 points (sorry, subjective in this case).
If you have won games / lost games, like Axis had, dont adjust those games in a ngeative way for Axis. His total points vs Pherman should stand.

Here’s my suggestion: games that were not announced as losses by the loser (which would include anyone who simply disappeared, of course) go into arbitration.  We’d have a panel of judges who take a vote on the likely winner, and points are awarded based on that.  In a lot of cases, it probably wouldn’t be clear who might win, and those games simply don’t count as wins or losses.

@Shin:

Here’s my suggestion: games that were not announced as losses by the loser (which would include anyone who simply disappeared, of course) go into arbitration.  We’d have a panel of judges who take a vote on the likely winner, and points are awarded based on that.  In a lot of cases, it probably wouldn’t be clear who might win, and those games simply don’t count as wins or losses.

Totally against panels and such. Also against quotas. When someone leaves, then his last active status is what determines everything after. You cannot, even potentially, punish someone who might have won due to luck, erros etc, even if the game was judged leaning in favor of the other player.

@axis-dominion:

if you are a top player who has played only a handful of other top players (like Juan, who has purposely kept his league games very low and instead plays a lot more outside of the league)

perhaps this is the answer for those of us that aspire to stand atop the league rankings? There certainly isn’t anything wrong with being selective in League games  while playing lots of games in the other thread, not that I do this but it would solve part of this issue.

The other issue, game abandonment, is a bit more difficult. Perhaps, to be fair, alex’s idea should be considered? Imo it seems reasonable but this is really Gamerman’s call !

@axis-dominion:

hmm, let’s see…before pherman ever showed up, i was a tier E. then he comes along and it’s pretty clear from having played him 3 times that he is at least a tier 1, if not an E himself. he drops out with a bunch of games hanging, and now as a result i have lost my E status. this was just not handled properly. anyone who has played him, or seen his play, will readily attest that he is certainly not a tier 2. what we are seeing in the rankings is not a correction, as you say, but rather a corruption.

there definitely needs to be a better way to handle situations like this. i have worked very hard all season to reach that status, having now 50 games under my belt with many, many wins, and yet something way beyond my control took place and BAM, just like that, i get knocked back down.

this has been a big turn off for me.

I completely disagree.  As I made the corrections last night, it was becoming obvious that your tier E status was in serious jeopardy.  Yes, Pherman dropping from his rage quit was a factor, but it is not as it appears.

I’ll tell you one solution.  Everybody didn’t have to claim wins over him by forfeit.  Now maybe it was appropriate in every case here, in my opinion it depends on how long the game has gone and how it was going, but in my opinion, if it was anybody’s game, I myself would not claim the win.  So you have all the buzzards to thank too.

You’re not going to like this, and I’m not going to take the time to give you a complete answer, but I think your stay in tier E was tenuous.  Yes you have a lot of wins, and a whole lot of them are against weak opponents.  How many wins do you have against other tier E’s?  ONE.  You have 38 wins and ONE is against a tier E.  Bmnielsen beat you 3 times, Adam beat you, Ghost beat you.  I really am sorry, but you’re biased.  You don’t belong in tier E yet.  Keep trying.

So I take issue with your pouting about the system because you don’t like what just happened.  It WAS in fact a correction, not a “corruption”.  If you want to be tier E, go out there and beat some tier 1’s and E’s.  One win against a tier E when you have 50 completed games is not going to do it.