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I see via the game creation page that this site has plans for balanced teams but it is not yet implemented, maybe due to some difficulty in figuring out the best way to mathematically balance out ratings?
I suggest a very basic algorithm to get to relatively balanced teams, namely putting the highest rated player on T1, the second highest rated on T2, etc. with the middle players beings swapped except for six player games which could be dealt with like something below:
For example: (P= Player, T= Team, P1= highest rated and descending from there from P2 to the last player with the lowest rating)
With four players it would be P1-T1, P2-T2, P3-T2, P4-T1
With six players it could be P1-T1, P2-T2, P3-T2, P4-T1, P5-T1, P6-T2 or P1-T1, P2-T2, P3-T1, P4-T2, P5-T2, P6-T1
With eight players would be P1-T1, P2-T2, P3-T1, P4-T2, P5-T2, P6-T1, P7-T2, P8-T1 or possibly even P1-T1, P2-T2, P3-T2, P4-T1, P5-T1, P6-T2, P7-T2, P8-T1.
Also, there is a typo in the screen (quoted below), “plit” instead of “split”.
Auto
Players are plit into teams based on their rating (unsupported).
This might seem like a very minor suggestion at first glance but when seeing a bunch of games (and the same is true on other sites which I won’t mention as some sites hate that) that have one team filled with top-rated players sitting on the page for weeks or months unfilled, I’m thinking it could be a good way both to get games filled and also to make the games seem inviting to players that would otherwise only play free-for-all games due to not wanting to be badly beaten by better players and/or established teams.
(And I do realize that the random feature exists, just thinking that the existence of the unsupported “Auto” feature implies that the site owners see the value in balanced games and that a simplified version of this would be of value. Related the term “balanced” or “semi-balanced” would relay the likelihood of evenly matched games better than “Random” or “Auto” do.)
I suggest a very basic algorithm to get to relatively balanced teams, namely putting the highest rated player on T1, the second highest rated on T2, etc. with the middle players beings swapped except for six player games which could be dealt with like something below:
For example: (P= Player, T= Team, P1= highest rated and descending from there from P2 to the last player with the lowest rating)
With four players it would be P1-T1, P2-T2, P3-T2, P4-T1
With six players it could be P1-T1, P2-T2, P3-T2, P4-T1, P5-T1, P6-T2 or P1-T1, P2-T2, P3-T1, P4-T2, P5-T2, P6-T1
With eight players would be P1-T1, P2-T2, P3-T1, P4-T2, P5-T2, P6-T1, P7-T2, P8-T1 or possibly even P1-T1, P2-T2, P3-T2, P4-T1, P5-T1, P6-T2, P7-T2, P8-T1.
Also, there is a typo in the screen (quoted below), “plit” instead of “split”.
Auto
Players are plit into teams based on their rating (unsupported).
This might seem like a very minor suggestion at first glance but when seeing a bunch of games (and the same is true on other sites which I won’t mention as some sites hate that) that have one team filled with top-rated players sitting on the page for weeks or months unfilled, I’m thinking it could be a good way both to get games filled and also to make the games seem inviting to players that would otherwise only play free-for-all games due to not wanting to be badly beaten by better players and/or established teams.
(And I do realize that the random feature exists, just thinking that the existence of the unsupported “Auto” feature implies that the site owners see the value in balanced games and that a simplified version of this would be of value. Related the term “balanced” or “semi-balanced” would relay the likelihood of evenly matched games better than “Random” or “Auto” do.)
A decent player looking for TvT games (not TvTvT or TvTvTvT, etc.), feel free to invite me if you have a game you need an extra player for.