I don't get any of the scoring and we really need an explanation of how this works.

It is definitely bugged and I think something is going on with coin generation, too.

I watch what cards my opponent is taking and some things happen that shouldn't be. My friend has noticed this same thing.

Sometimes my opponent has played all their cards but they keep accumulating a mass amount of coins. They won't have any agents up, they aren't playing cards or using a patron but you hear the "bump" sound multiple times and their coin count skyrockets.

This isn't a previous combo still completing or anything like that because sometimes there is a pause then it starts again with no plays being made. And I don't know any combos that give that many coins in one play anyway.

Personofsecrets wrote: »

It's sort of weird for the scoring system to assume a massive loss of skill when giving out -150 points when the more likely case, the opponent getting lucky, is probably what happened. How many points should that reflect?

How often does luck play a factor? Is it luck or skill if I decide to buy a mediocre card from the tavern and reveal a great card for my opponent? I’d say it’s a bad move on my part and a lack of skill.

It's not bugged, but I suspect the scoring algorithm is whack in the early days of a new season.

This is how i've inferred the scoring system to operate:

You and your opponent are bracketed into X percentage of the leaderboard ranks
A match has 100 points on the line
This 100 points is adjusted depending on the difference between your percentage ranks
Hence, wild swings early on when there are only a couple 100 players qualified for the leaderboard

I've come to terms with this system now that I've come to reason it's underpinnings as best as possible without direct knowledge.

I'm more an advocate for there being a point floor e.g. No matter the difference in rank, the winner should receive a minimum 25 points. Right now 0 points happens often enough and that seems to me to function as a disincentive.

NeKryXe wrote: »

OK. I can confirm now that the ranking system of ToT is with serious problems.

In the last 5 matches I watched it carefully:
1st win +15 points
2nd win 0 points
3rd win +17 points
1st loss -150 points

So... it seems that by winning a match we can get from 0 (that's weird) to 17 points, but everytime we lose they took us 150 points (this is really insane). It's clearly bugged.

Morimizo wrote: »

I laugh at another 'adjustment' that occurs to the rank; quite regularly I log out with a certain ranking, say 211, then the next day, before I even play a single match, I sit on 285. What to infer from that? Is ranking based on cumulative wins and losses, ranking of your opponents, ranking of other player's opponents, or all of the above in some complex algorithm?

Perhaps renowned Tamrielic sportwriters for Imperial City Today subjectively order us like American college football teams.

Yeah, that must be it.

People play the game while your logged out and acquire more points than you and pass you in the rankings…

My score on the leaderboards was 499, ranking was 135. Just played 2 competitive games, won them both, and my score was still 499 and my ranking was 136. Filed a bug report but the scoring system is so cryptic that for all I know, it wasn't a bug. I agree, the scoring system needs transparency.