I'm not really sure what I'm doing to get me good matchups. In the beginning, I guess just finish your games relatively quickly, don't lose, and hope you get lucky? Then once you start getting good matchups maybe delay your play to avoid lowering your rating, continuing to get good matchups?

It's also possible matchups are determined before the number-of-games-not-yet-played penalty comes into play. How else would #16 get paired with #3/4/5?

In the end I try not to think about how the ladder works too much :P

Szeweningen has been dethroned for the time being. But with only one loss, he is still very much alive and could come back in the season. Yves steps up to take his place at #1 currently. Here are the new rankings:

1. Yves: 9-0 (beat his balls, Lord Syvedyas, Old Surehand, Bigchps, Nomercy, Nightfly, El Diablo)
2. Ruthless Bastard: 8-0 (beat Angry Birds, Jehovah, Vortex)
3. TeddyFSB: 10-0 (beat Turtle, Flyingbender, Heyheuhei)
4. Darkpie: 10-0 (beat his balls, Braak, Vendetta, Turtle, Ineffable, CHRIS37, Bananashake)
5. Summer: 8-0 (beat Old Surehand, Oh Noes)
6. MG: 7-0 (beat GreenTea, Vendetta, Beren)
7. Gol D. Roger: 10-0 (beat El Diablo, Jefferspin, Verzeher, Hypnotic)
8. Pushover: 8-0 (beat Mirror, Jefferspin, ps)
9. ollie: 9-0 (beat Beren, CONQ, Niko)
10. Rento: 10-0 (beat Braak, Robin Hood)
11. Szeweningen: 10-1 (beat C-17, EZPickens, Dom365, Taisho, ARC; lost to Robin Hood)
12. Kappa: 9-1 (beat Gambler, Arkanton, Frankdeslimste, Verzeher; lost to Taisho)
13. Robin Hood: 7-1 (beat Szeweningen, Silver; lost to Rento)
14. Lord Syvedyas: 7-1 (beat Turtle, Juvenille Deliquent, Boston; lost to Yves)
15. Grinche: 9-1 (beat C-17, Angry Birds, Braak, Ryiro; lost to QB)
16. timon92: 10-1 (beat Veelvraat, Jo, Surehand, General Charles; lost to JaponeSafado)
17. Angry Birds: 9-2 (beat NoobSchool, dwoogee, Latnox; lost to Grinche and Ruthless Bastard)
18. NoobSchool: 9-2 (beat Latnox, Vendetta, Flyingbender, JaponeSafado; lost to Mirror and Angry Birds)
19. dwoogee: 10-2 (beat Kryzchu, C-17, Timinator, GOATFINGER; lost to Angry Birds and Master Adrionlox)
20. ACL Tears: 7-1 (beat Dreamworker, JaponeSafado; lost to Arkanton)
21. Kryzchu: 10-3 (beat Arkanton, Gambler, Taisho, Don, Kabelbrand, Jefferspin; lost to dwoogee, Oh Noes, Nomercy)
22. Bananashake: 9-2 (beat Surehand, Mirror, Ultimaratio; lost to Darkpie, Ryiro)
23. Orange: 7-1 (beat JSA; lost to Frankdeslimste)
24. his balls: 10-3 (beat Latnox, Mike, Vortex, Gyver, Ryiro; lost to Yves, Darkpie, Vendetta)
25. GreenTea: 10-3 (beat Timinator, Gambler, Kabelbrand, Taisho; lost to MG, Mike, EZPickens)

Interestingly enough, GreenTea has a few good wins, and has 3 losses. All three of his losses have come to GG members, and none of his wins have been against a GG. Looks like he just needs to avoid the GG's for the rest of the season.

Clans' rankings so far:
Top 3 players from each clan which accounts for the clan's combined rankings:
1. Lynx: 21
2. GG: 39
3. WG: 63
4. WM: 89
5. AHOL: 98
6. Blitz: 129
7. VIW: 150
8. XS: 181
9. Turtles: 201
10. Master: 220

Top 5 players from each clan:
1. Lynx: 63
2. GG: 116
3. WG: 157

So far, this season has been dominated by Lynx, with GG easily doing second best, and WG easily doing third best. Can these clans continue to do as well as they are?

1. Yves: 11-0 (beat Szeweningen, Darkpie, his balls, Lord, El Diablo, Surehand, Bigchps, nightfly)
2. Summer: 13-0 (beat Teddy, Surehand, Oh Noes)
3. Darkpie: 11-2 (beat Pushover, his balls, Braak, Vendetta, Ineffable, Chris37, Bananashake; lost to Yves and Teddy)
4. MG: 11-1 (beat GreenTea, Ruthless Bastard, Gyver, Vendetta; lost to Phaeril)
5. Grinche: 11-1 (beat ollie, Braak, C-17; lost to QB)
6. Robin Hood: 11-1 (beat Bananashake, Szeweningen, AWOL, Silver; lost to Rento)
7. Math Wolf: 10-1 (beat ps, Silver, C-17, Frankdeslimste; lost to Chris37)
8. Lord Syvedas: 12-2 (beat Jefferspin, Pushover, Jackie Treehorn, Kappa; lost to Yves, Ruthless Bastard)
9. Szeweningen: 12-2 (beat Timinator, C-17, EZPickens, Dom, Taisho; lost to Yves and Robin Hood)
10. Gol D. Roger: 13-1 (beat Teddy, Jackie Treehorn, Juvenille, El Diablo, Jefferspin, Hypnotic, Verzeher; lost to Baroness Amy)
11. ollie: 12-1 (beat Ruthless Bastard, Jackie Treehorn, dwoogee; lost to Grinche)
12. Teddy: 12-2 (beat Rento, Darkpie, Flyingbender, Heyheuhei; lost to Summer and Gol D. Roger)
13. his balls: 13-3 (beat nightfly, noobschool, Kappa, Mike, Vortex, Gyver; lost to Vendetta, Darkpie, Yves)
14. Ruthless Bastard: 10-2 (beat Mike, Lord, Angry Birds, Vortex; lost to MG and ollie)
15. Nightfly: 13-4 (beat Krzychu, HHH, Orange, Gyver, Flyingbender, Tenshi, Bigchps; lost to his balls, JSA, Latnox, Yves)
16. Pushover: 9-2 (beat NoobSchool, Mirror, Jefferspin, ps; lost to Lord, Darkpie)
17. Kappa: 11-4 (beat ACL Tears, Gambler, Arkanton, Frank, Verzeher; lost to Taisho, Lord, his balls, Kryzchu)
18. Frankdeslimste: 10-2 (beat El Diablo, Orange; lost to Math Wolf, Kappa)
19. dwoogee: 10-3 (beat Kryzchu, C-17, Timinator, GOATFINGER; lost to Angry Birds, ollie, Adrionox)
20. Surehand: 11-4 (beat Silver, Ineffable, Dom; lost to Bananashake, timon, Yves, Summer)
21. timon92: 11-2 (beat GOATFINGER, Veelvraat, Surehand; lost to Bananashake, JaponeSafado)
22. Ineffable: 8-3 (beat Phaeril, Vortex, Bjarke; lost to Surehand, Niko, Darkpie)
23. Kryzchu: 12-5 (beat JSA, Kappa, Arkanton, Gambler, Taisho, Jefferspin; lost to dwoogee, Greentea, nightfly, Oh Noes, Nomercy)
24. Orange: 10-4 (beat Tenshi, GreenTea, JSA, El Diablo; lost to nightfly, Dreamworker, insane, Frank)
25. Rento: 12-2 (beat ps, Arkanton, Braak, Robin Hood; lost to Teddy, Mirror)

Top 3 players from each clan:
1. GG: 26
2. Lynx: 29
3. WG: 36
4. WM: 69

Clan Rankings (top 5)
1. Lynx: 76
2. GG: 91
3. WG: 112

Lynx is still doing the best this season, but GG and WG have closed the gap significantly. Can Lynx finish on top or will GG or WG come out as the best clan this season?

Something that makes this competition even more intersting is that 3 seasons ago, GG did the best in Guiroma. 2 seasons ago was Poland and Lynx dominated. Last season, WG won on no-split mode. So in the past four(including this one) seasons, these clans have performed the best.

Edited 12/17/2014 19:53:41

Looking at Yves' playing speed, he has already lost 3 games, he just doesn't surrender.

I hope my clan mates can keep it up. I am languishing in the 70s, so I cannot help them there.

Aaaaand I was right.

Haha wow. What a scumbag :P

Edited 12/20/2014 21:13:44

Man what a letdown.. That was really some ridiculous stalling

Does that even help in some way?

You get matched with the highest rated opponents, Win/lose - it's beneficial for your rating

Take that, suckers!

Congrats Gol! Well earned victory, only one loss!

:)

Rankings based on the top 5 players for each clan:
1. GG: 75
2. Lynx: 77
3. WG: 101

GG and Lynx especially have been extremely close in terms of who finished better this season, with WG an obvious third.

Lynx had 4 in the top 20, and 7 in the top 50.
GG has 2 in the top 10, 5 in the top 30, and 6 in the top 50.
WG had 2 in the top 10, 4 in the top 20.

Who did better between Lynx and GG is up for opinion. GG did slightly better in their top 5, but Lynx had a lot more depth.

But as to depth, Lynx had more players compete.
WG and GG had 9 players compete. Lynx had 12.

Congrats to everyone.

Special congrats to the top ten, and also Baroness as she was the only person to beat Roger (apparently)

Congrats Gold d Roger. 19-1 is the best record win-loss probably.

summer also had that but lost the head to head

Congratz Gold D!!

Edited 1/10/2015 02:06:12