it is possible for sure, unfortunately I'm not yr man to do it :)

I know bennobenassi or some nick like that had a script half doing it and I was originally going to do something with it but tbh too big a job for me I aint the greatest of coders.


Would be great to see something like this, I'm willing to help a little but someone else would have to do the bulk of the work.

Pointless. Id will deny access to stats for such bot seconds after it will know about it.

Do you mind expanding why would they do so? The only harm they would have from this is a bot using some of their bandwidth every now and then.

because ID is only interested in making sure Quakelive failes!!!

this

they only banned SK from doing so cause their system tried pulling the whole database at once.

Shouldnt be a problem if you just get stats for 50 players or smth ^^

Come on guys, lets code it !!!!111

We already have such a system in the danish QL community

http://live.quake3.dk/?side=rangstigen

However, it only records the matches you want it to, which then allows you to play practice matches and only add the official cup matches that are played. You click "add match", and copy the match link directly from QL, and the script gets all needed information and adds it to the website.

The problem is that not all players add all of their matches against eachother To make the rankings 100% correctly, it requires all players to play matches versus eachother, or else very bad players can get a high ranking, by just playing versus extremely newbs.

I thought it was fun to play a few ranked matches and made me play versus other players than I normally would, as i could find them active on the rankings. However, it was no shocking or mind blowing feature that increased activity 5000% (but a little :D)

The system should be automatic or people would not care adding matches. At the same time the system should not be too invasive or ID would shot it down. Satisfying both should be feasible.

About people ranking up against newbs, this can be described as having the community split in disjoint sets of players, each one with its own ranking. As soon as players of disjoints sets start playing together, the system would do a merge of the two sets rearranging the ranks. I'm pretty sure there is literature on merging ranked sets in the proper way. Eventually, most of the community would belong to the biggest players set, and a player only playing with newbs would be ranked at the top of a small group. Weighting the scores by the group size, and normalizing, would then recreate a proper unique ranking.

About the difference such a system would make, it all depends on tournament organizers start using it for separating players in leagues and for seeding. I believe cups like zotac or gdata would attract more players if not only a few guys had the chance to win.

Elo is the only real system that you would want to use, though it would probably be more practical to just handle it manually. Fully automating it and backing it with a database would only be worth it if you had a LOT of players.

Hell, I believe teamliquid is even still doing their elo calculations manually.