Hello everyone,
I've now changed the league scoring and removed all individual bonuses/malues:

You no longer get a -1 point penalty if you are in the winning coalition and end the game with no ships and no points.

You no longer get a +1 point if you are the best scorer of the losing coalition.

The +1 point bonus for overwhelming victory is now applied to all members of the winning coalition, even those who have lost their ships.

These changes follow the feedback received and the discussion on it (see here: http://www.youplay.it/beta/play/forum_showmessage.asp?msgid=6447 ).

The main reason behind this is that WS&IM is not an "individual" game like BM, but it's a team one. A ship alone can't do much, as the main aspect of WS&IM is coordinating ships to maintain a formation which avoids enemy rakes and forces the enemy to suffer your rakes.
As a consequence of the nature of the game, the individual bonuses were not 100% compatible with "good play" as they favoured some individualistic behaviour (like staying away from the main action and not helping your teammates to avoid losing your ship).

I've also run a statistical analysis of all WS&IM league games played on the main site. The result is that those individual bonuses/maluses are not correlated with the skill of the players.
In other words:

the players who win most are not those who get these bonuses more often and the maluses less often.
So basically these individual bonuses/maluses were not good predictors of the performance of the player and so they should not be used to attribute points in leagues.

The result of all this is that now all coalition members get the same points:

4 for overwhelming victory

3 for normal victory

1 for Tie or Draw

0 for loss
The only individual penalty is for surrendering, which is based on reasons somewhat outside of the "normal gameplay".
Surrendered players always get 0 points, regardless of their coalition result (win, tie, draw or loss).




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