Actually, the ranking is completely based upon whether Kostas likes you.

Don't worry too much about the points and the rank titles. The points system is just to help players of similar levels play games together.
Most on this site look at Ghost Ratings for the site rankings. This gets published once a month.
http://tournaments.webdiplomacy.net/theghost-ratingslist

I'd go out on a limb and say whilst Ghost Ratings are popular with a significant number of those of us who arse about in the forums between games, most of the people who use the site will never have looked at them. The ranks based on points are little more than a pleasent dash of colour to the game and don't really mean anything, and the harvesting of points themselves does little more than scare noobs into thinking you're a diplomacy legend instead of just someone who has just played too many games :p.

In short, both rating systems are simply different ways of telling us how weak and feeble we are compared to Madmarx :).

yeah, i seriously thin that the whole concept be rehashed.
merge both D's & rank# into something more palatable.

I can honestly say, I think ive looked at the ghost Rankings maybe once, and I dont understand them... like what they are based on and all that... it confuzes my brain...

Daiichi: I believe your rank is based on your current points, not your total points. So if you have joined some games in between, your apparent rank would go down.

Butterhead: Ghost rating is based on how well you do compared to how well you are expected to do. It compares your skill level to that of your opponents. So if you win against people who are ranked much higher than you, your ranking goes up a lot. If you win against people who are ranked lower than you, your rating doesn't go up much at all. There's a lot more math that goes into it, but that's the basic gist.

I personally hate the GRs because I play in live games that often have to draw due to CDs. A draw is less than my expected outcome in a game against 4 new players and 2 experienced players, which is the average live game mix.

mrLentz haz a point.

Live games are very good for my GR . . . you just have to win the ones that aren't large draws!

wigginwiggin

huh?

thank you all, specially octavious and groza. I though that the "name rank" (member, puppet, etc) were based on GR and not in points. Makes no sense to me that if i have 1.000 in play, i have a rate of puppet....