Newmanistan wrote:Baseinator Feedback:
The midway point is a good time to take a look at the data that our new scorinator is producing, since everyone has played everyone else in their group the same amount of times. I was looking at the midway point data provided by Baseinator in comparison to xkoranate's data midway through WBC 41. My first impression was that run scoring seemed to be higher with baseinator, but an overall picture proved that to not be a factor at all. With the addition of style modifiers and park factors into play, I feel that baseinator has done a great job in that regard. However, one thing I have wondered if games across the board, are too close, when top teams are playing bottom teams. While the recent Free Republics rout of Krossa bucks that trend, I think the jury is still out on that. Maybe that's because of the style modifiers, or maybe its just because the sample size is too small. I think it is a combination of both, so I will be looking more at the end of the qualifying session. Overall, I think baseinator has done a great job, but one thing I wonder about too is if the bad teams are bad enough. Small sample size, really.
A question I have for Free Republics is: Is there a built in home field advantage for the home team? I'm wondering if that should be increased a tad (or maybe the 2 of 3 losses to Yoannes at home out of no where irked me a tad too much to swing my opinion).
This is just some general feedback.... this competition uses a new scorinator and so far we haven't talked about it all that much. In the end, that is probably a good thing.
There is currently no home field advantage in Baseinator. The two differences between home teams and away teams in Baseinator are:
1) The park factor only applies when a team is playing at home.
2) If the home team is ahead going into the bottom of the 9th, the home team does not get a chance to score runs. Also, the scorinator will never produce a walk-off victory for the home team of more than a 4 run margin since such scorelines are impossible.
I could add a home advantage into the next version.
Regarding the games being too close, that can be changed just by modifying the constants. According to the readme file I wrote last year, an infinite ratio (i.e. a team with rank, roster or RP vs a team with 0 rank, 0 roster and 0 RP) is equivalent to a 1096.6 ratio. Lowering the lnmax constant (the 2nd number in constants.txt) from 8 to 6 would reduce the maximum possible ratio to around 148.4. An lnmax constant of 5 would set the max ratio at 54.6 (lnmax of 4 is equivalent to a max ratio of around 20.1). These values are based on the formula, listed in my readme, of ln(ratio * e). That would need to be combined with some kind of tweak to maxRunVariance (the 3rd number in constants.txt) to rebalance the randomness.
Drawkland wrote:As far as Baseinator goes, I've pretty much accepted the fact that I'm probably boned this time, but I'm not the greatest authority on results.
I just want to comment on the physical output of the scorinator. I guess this is just personal preference, but what I liked about xkoranate is that all the spacing, on the tables, and the linescores, are all uniform. I've gotten used to the tables all having the same length between names and numbers and the numbers being spaced out. Like I said, this just feels like a personal preference, but the numbers being so close together on the tables and linescores make them look cluttered. But that's probably just me.
That's something that can be changed fairly easily and I'll look into altering the look of the linescores and tables in the next version. Adding additional spaces between fields is a fairly straightforward change. Making the team name section the same length for every team is a bit more complicated (and will slow the scorinator down slightly but not enough that you'd notice it unless you typically scorinate 100,000 team domestic leagues).
Schiltzberg wrote:I just realized that Frenline Delpha is not participating in this tournament and apparently isn't that active with NS anymore. I miss the Anacondas. I hope everything is okay with FD.
I believe he's just very busy with RL right now.
