War Ranking System (With Equations!)

[Ideaman]

So have you ever wanted to be able to recruit players based on their War Rankings? First you tried the War Hero trick, but it is too easily obtained by fighting players lower than their own rank, and sometimes inaccurate due to too many wars being played. So how could Supercell easily display accurate war rankings? I developed an equation to do this.

R = (S1+S2-4+2A-B1-B2)/2

Where S1and S2 are the number of stars from both attacks, A is the player's war rank (E.G. #1, #2, etc.), and B1 and B2 are the two defender's ranks. If Alex attacked another player more than three spaces above him and got zero stars, this is an alternative formula:

R = (S2-2+A-B2)/2

Where S2 and B2 are the stats from the attack where Alex did NOT attack the player more than three ranks above him and got 0 stars.

Example: Alex was ranked #3 in the war map. He 3-starred the enemy #3 and 1-starred the enemy #1. How is he ranked with this formula?

R = (3+1-4+2(3)-3-1)/2 = 1

If R is positive, Alex is better than average. If R is negative, Alex is worse than average. I think that in a player's profile, this war rank should be displayed as the average of all of his wars' ranks. So if Alex got R to equal 2, -3, and 1 again, it would display his rank as 0.5.

What do you think of players being able to judge other players' rankings better?

[TheSixthBuilder]

Supercell doesn't allow potentially negative stats

[Uthrac]

1. SuperCell will not provide any data that can be used to name-and-shame any player.

End of story. But, if you want more ...

2. The point is to win the war. Players playing to get the best possible rank may have conflicting priorities.

3. Let's look at another using your formula ...

I am number 20 in the war and attack bases #1 and #2, getting 0 stars. My rating in your system is:
(0 + 0 - 4 + 40 - 1 - 2) / 2 = 16.5
Your buddy Alex has a score of 1, but I have a 16.5.
You think these are accurate war rankings?

I am number 10 in the war. Alex is number 10 in his war. We are both TH9.
I decide to attack and 3-star #11 and #12 (both TH8) for a score of (3+3-4+20-11-12)= -5
Alex attacks and 2-stars #9 and #10 (both TH9) for a score of (2+2-4+20-10-9)= 1
We both did our part to contribute to winning the war, but do I deserve a -5 rating?

[Ideaman]

1. SuperCell will not provide any data that can be used to name-and-shame any player.

End of story. But, if you want more ...

2. The point is to win the war. Players playing to get the best possible rank may have conflicting priorities.

3. Let's look at another using your formula ...

I am number 20 in the war and attack bases #1 and #2, getting 0 stars. My rating in your system is:
(0 + 0 - 4 + 40 - 1 - 2) / 2 = 16.5
Your buddy Alex has a score of 1, but I have a 16.5.
You think these are accurate war rankings?

I am number 10 in the war. Alex is number 10 in his war. We are both TH9.
I decide to attack and 3-star #11 and #12 (both TH8) for a score of (3+3-4+20-11-12)= -5
Alex attacks and 2-stars #9 and #10 (both TH9) for a score of (2+2-4+20-10-9)= 1
We both did our part to contribute to winning the war, but do I deserve a -5 rating?

Good point Uthrac. I will revise the system to account for this. From now on, zero stars on higher players will not give any higher rankings.

[Rahle]

How is system going to tell me anything long range? Are you going to add the scores from each war as we go? My current war is against a clan that has rather huge odds against us. We have 2 th 10s in our clan and about 3 th 9s in our top 5. The clan we are against has 4 top th 10s and 4 th9s following. We use a mirror system for first attack. So my highest th 9 number is 7. Leaving us with a huge mountain to climb since 2 of our th8s now have to hit a th 9. Your ranking will leave me a lot farther from where I should be in normal cases since I now have to attack a th9 with a high level royals with my mostly maxed th8. Other then that, if I have just one bad war where my choices or deployment was just not spot on, my ranking again goes in the dumps when I am actually a decent player.

was this rank suppose to be used outside my clan? If I am in fact a bad attacker in war, and got kicked from my clan for it. How will I get into another good clan with a system like this? I would much prefer to have my clan see me in action for a few wars and get their own opinion then to count on an algorithm to tell if I am a good player.

[Ideaman]

How is system going to tell me anything long range? Are you going to add the scores from each war as we go? My current war is against a clan that has rather huge odds against us. We have 2 th 10s in our clan and about 3 th 9s in our top 5. The clan we are against has 4 top th 10s and 4 th9s following. We use a mirror system for first attack. So my highest th 9 number is 7. Leaving us with a huge mountain to climb since 2 of our th8s now have to hit a th 9. Your ranking will leave me a lot farther from where I should be in normal cases since I now have to attack a th9 with a high level royals with my mostly maxed th8. Other then that, if I have just one bad war where my choices or deployment was just not spot on, my ranking again goes in the dumps when I am actually a decent player.

was this rank suppose to be used outside my clan? If I am in fact a bad attacker in war, and got kicked from my clan for it. How will I get into another good clan with a system like this? I would much prefer to have my clan see me in action for a few wars and get their own opinion then to count on an algorithm to tell if I am a good player.

It will give the average of the last couple wars you did. Good point though.