Posted by cubcub113 on 7/21/2020 6:07:00 PM (view original):
Posted by sol_phenom3 on 7/21/2020 5:35:00 PM (view original):
Blue is 21-28 but the fractions break my brain. Does the scale end at 100.0 or can a 100 go up to 100.9?
Also, with the fractions, it doesn't round right, so if a player caps at 99.9 they'd be a 99 right? So at 71.9 they'd turn blue?
I know that 99.5-100 is a 100. But isn't a 99-99.499999 (repeating) also a 100?
I get this from the fact we never see a rating a 0, right? So 0.1 must be seen as a 1? Do we get the ceiling?
no - if it was, you'd see virtually every rating go +1 on the first practice. well, assuming they start flat (i think they do).
i kinda forget the details, and i would roughly guess: starting ratings are integers, actual ratings are decimals. prior to 3.0, i believe actual ratings were truncated, making 100 ratings extremely rare. now, it feels like they are rounded - leading to common 100s and also that goofy crap where your dude went from 80 to 87 but it shows +6? i haven't really tried to vet this theory, and i used to know perhaps for sure which numbers were rounded and which weren't, but i definitely don't know that now.
here's a simple way to confirm for someone who cares - track the growth of players early, keeping things (their practice minutes and starts/minutes) as consistent as possible. if you see players going +1 way more quickly than they get to +2, +3, etc - then you would think, some of those guys are close to hitting the roll up point, as in, if things roll at whole numbers, then some of these guys are starting like 79.9 (rolling up at 80). i'm pretty sure that isn't the case, but if it was, the evidence is in the start of season growth (this is where i figured this out a decade ago). on the other hand, if you don't see this - it means players are starting on the whole number only (i believe this is true - also if you watch potentials, like, there are a lot of 72 greens or 79 blues, and if they all flip colors after 1 practice, it would suggest that all 72 greens are the same).
similarly, if players start at a whole number, you can tell if it rounds at .5 or .0 (truncating - 59.99 goes to 59), by how long it takes to get the first point relative to the second and third point. if you see guys consistently going up after say 3 games and then the 2nd point is close to 6 games, perhaps 5, then you would think, its rolling over at the whole number, 70 -> 71 took 3 days (perhaps its 71.2 now) and then it was 2-3 more days to break 72. on the flip side, if you see the first point go up in roughly half the time, or a little longer, than the second point and third point, then you would think, that first point only has to clear from say 60 to 60.5, and then its got a whole point to go to 61.5.
i'm not sure you can 100% definitively answer all versions of these questions simply by observing the start of season and maybe the potential flips on the edge case conditions, for any arbitrary set of answers, but i would guess most likely, all the answers are there.
7/21/2020 10:32 PM (edited)