The rating system for the pond games is still in a test mode. I'll try to do some experiments next week.
Anyway, no results will be lost and everything will be calculated from the very beginning.

Fencer: Cool :o)

ughaibu: Please take this to the appropriate board.

ughaibu: This is not the forum for tablut discussion. I am simply asking that this board remains on topic so as not to have things get out of hand.

I'd like to be banned too. Would you please ban me for one week?

PS: Many thanks in advance. (I won't be able to thank after the ban, will I?)

Game Update: http://brainking.com/game/Pond?g=12

Sorry Bry, looks like you guessed wrong in this one.... and Maxxina stayed on top.

.... now lets see if I can get very lucky, but Maxxina is looking pretty good right now.

BIG BAD WOLF: yes, i didnt want to win that one anyway... didnt want to upset you.. LOL

Maxinna has won this one easily now I think.

BBW - this game is mine :) Even if you get the bonus you cannot win :)

Maxxina - oh yes, he can...

Fencer - How will the Ponds ratings work?? will they be based on wins, or number of rounds survived?

Bry: The basic idea is to take a pond as a tournament. Your final position is used to determine your "wins" and "loses", compared to final positions of other players.

I could for my pond tounaments create for example like a Baseball players average,which is based on number of times at the plate divided by there number of hits,in the ponds game a percentage of lasting in the game would be a great way for rating the ponds.

slow pond for the wine lovers... PRIZE!! http://brainking.com/game/Pond?g=98&trnst=0 pond, will last neary 4 years if the max number sign up......

http://brainking.com/game/Pond?g=56

ok , most adrenaline pond - 74 points difference and two round to finish :)

Congrats for your win in "Scarlets Winter SkatePond

if you intend to commit suicide and bet 0, could you please do it all together in one turn? doing it in a trickle of one per turn is a supplementary hardship on us survivors

EIHN has stopped matching alesh. this means, 4 full rounds to go, then he drops to 373. by the way, what happens then if the autobet is still 1149?

Universal Eyes: I was thinking of someting simular. Number of rounds that you last divided by the number of rounds the Pond goes on for. This would make the largest ponds equal to the smaller ones as far as a person's staying power is concerned. That, plus doing what fencer suggests and of course win/loss/wins per pond stats should be enough for record keeping, eh?

By the way Universal Eyes, batting average in baseball is not based on plate appearances, but on at-bats. Not the same thing in the rule book. Using plate appearances is for on base percentage. Walks aren't counted as at-bats, but they are counted as plate appearances. Sacrifice bunts aren't counted as at-bats either. Also, the number of hits is divided by the at-bats not the other way around as you have it.
Spring training is just a couple of weeks away!

There is a bug in the ranking of the player, fall in the pond. In this pond
>http://brainking.com/game/Pond?g=41&trnst=3

I fall in round 15 with bet 0 but BBW fall before in round 14.
So I must second, and no two seconds !
I have this also message in the bug report.

P.S. http://brainking.com/game/Pond?g=28
Also not correct: Ebru is 6. not 4.

dear fencer, first pond ranking is now o.k.,
but in the other pond is something wrong (look
3 x 8. and 2 x 11., but different rounds this player fall)
http://brainking.com/game/Pond?g=28
I think so:
8. furbster
8.Arctic Warrior
10. zockerdotcom
11. Backoff
12. Mach machovic

Mely: The formula has been fixed a while ago.

Fencer:
o.k., thanks

Could we please have another option in the drop down filter box on pond page...or a link somewhere on there for " ponds created by me only" ( like on tournament page)?

One concern I have with the Pond rankings is that it may change the game startegy some. Right now it is played with one purpose, which is to win. Second place isnt any better than last place. Some people right now take big risk/reward ratios, its kinda like Im either gonna win big or lose big. But when ratings come into play, there will be more insentive to play more conservativly and stay in the game as long as possible even if it means reducing your actual chances of winning.

I also recently had a game where I went out third from last but it ranked me as swecond, then the person who got second was ranked third....

I also want to know what happens to an auto bid when you dont have enough points left to cover it?

Oh yeah....one more thought.

With the rankings coming soon and incorporating games from the begining, I now think it is wrong to use a shill to play your moves for you.

Auto bid - if you do not have enough money to cover the "auto bid", it will bid as much as it can.

if there are 2 top bidders...do they both get the bonus?
ie: player A and player C both bid 12,000 and that is the highest bid for the round.

bwildman : nobody get a bonus :]

Read the rules, paragraph 5).

LOL...I did...once ;-)
thanks for the info,guys.

http://brainking.com/game/Pond?g=12

Thanks fubster :)

me 3rd pond win :)

i've won 3 so far also :), another one to come in an hour :)

me too :)

i cant wait for tournament of champions :)

wow! how many % of ponds you entered did you both win ?

im running many ponds . I fell to pond in about 15 ponds max , . and 3 win :) and 1 more next day :)

I should get my first Pond win in about 30 hours. Yea!

BBW- yup im im goona be 2nd :))

Grrrr.... I guess that will teach me to play my ponds right away.

http://brainking.com/game/Pond?p=1&g=14

Grrrr.....

i've fell in about 10 hrqls bbut many more falls to come i reckon lol

http://brainking.com/game/Pond?g=91

OK Guys, only 2 more to drop in the pond to get rid of all the girls!

BIG BAD WOLF: Hahaha.. not a chance.. we are only making you think you boys are winning! ;)

Fencer (skrýt) Re: Ponds ranking 24. ledna 2005, 19:52:29
Mely: The formula has been fixed a while ago.

It's still not working properly.
http://brainking.com/game/Pond?g=63&trnst=3

Your 48 hours strike2 hide are up and you are visible again.
Im sorry but if it happens once more...then you will be banned from the board

Hey, this is a pond which was finished before the fix was applied. Such ponds must be fixed manually in the database, of course.

http://brainking.com/game/Pond?g=63&trnst=3
if your on about this pond, it was only finished today