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Burzuk Implementor
Joined: 20 Jan 2004 Posts: 529
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 9:47 pm Post subject: Top 10 PKers of 2005. |
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Notice the stats here are total-character stats, rather than month-by-month summaries. Thus, only completed (i.e. dead) characters are listed here. Currently active characters will have their shot at getting on next year's list.
TOP CABAL PKERS
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[KNIGHT] KILLS DEATHS EFFICIENCY [LEGION] KILLS DEATHS EFFICIENCY
1. Runath 56 7 88.89% 1. Rolf 89 18 83.18%
2. Navatar 51 15 77.27% 2. Thkot 53 35 60.23%
3. Arkni 13 10 56.52% 3. Orkahn 54 48 52.94%
4. Gunther 7 10 41.18% 4. Istorvir 19 12 61.29%
5. Kelek 8 14 36.36% 5. Dharza 21 15 58.33%
[JUSTICE] KILLS DEATHS EFFICIENCY [WARLORD] KILLS DEATHS EFFICIENCY
1. Thremus 31 16 65.96% 1. Nychlas 47 47 50.00%
2. Xalos 26 23 53.06% 2. Chlor 42 61 40.78%
3. Jutazz 18 14 56.25% 3. Taurth 35 61 36.46%
4. Etso 25 33 43.10% 4. Nassi 29 56 34.12%
5. Kletian 11 15 42.31% 5. Giune 17 40 29.82%
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Methodology: All caballed characters are ranked within their respective cabals, with rankings determined by weighing 35% by total number of kills and weighing 65% by killing efficiency.
TOP 10 LISTS
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TOP KILLERS KILLS DEATHS EFFICIENCY MOST EFFICIENT KILLS DEATHS EFFICIENCY
1. Rolf 89 18 83.18% 1. Runath 56 7 88.89%
2. Runath 56 7 88.89% 2. Rolf 89 18 83.18%
3. Orkahn 54 48 52.94% 3. Navatar 51 15 77.27%
4. Thkot 53 35 60.23% 4. Thremus 31 16 65.96%
5. Navatar 51 15 77.27% 5. Istorvir 19 12 61.29%
6. Nychlas 47 47 50.00% 6. Thkot 53 35 60.23%
7. Chlor 42 61 40.78% 7. Dharza 21 15 58.33%
8. Taurth 35 61 36.46% 8. Arkni 13 10 56.52%
9. Thremus 31 16 65.96% 9. Dolgin 31 24 56.36%
10. Dolgin 31 24 56.36% 10. Jutazz 18 14 56.25%
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Methodology: All level 50's are ranked according to either most kills made or highest overall efficiency (10 kills minimum).
OVERALL TOP 10
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NAME KILLS DEATHS EFFICIENCY RANK RANK CABAL CLASS
1. Runath 56 7 88.89% 1 2 [KNIGHT] Paladin
2. Rolf 89 18 83.18% 2 1 [LEGION] Shaman
3. Navatar 51 15 77.27% 3 5 [KNIGHT] Paladin
4. Thkot 53 35 60.23% 6 4 [LEGION] Invoker
5. Thremus 31 16 65.96% 4 9 [JUSTICE] Warrior
6. Orkahn 54 48 52.94% 12 3 [LEGION] Dark-Knight
7. Dolgin 31 24 56.36% 9 10 (None) Healer
8. Istorvir 19 12 61.29% 5 20 [LEGION] Ninja
9. Nychlas 47 47 50.00% 13 6 [WARLORD] Ranger
10. Dharza 21 15 58.33% 7 18 [LEGION] Necromancer
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Methodology: All level 50's are ranked, with rankings determined by weighing 35% by total number of kills and weighing 65% by killing efficiency. Only those ranked in the top 20 for both kills and efficiency are eligible for the Overall Top 10.
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_Clifton_ Emissary
Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 1405 Location: your and you're are not the same. they're, there, and their are not the same. learn to english.
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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Very nicely done. This is for characters after PK stats were introduced? |
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Sebryn
Joined: 16 Jan 2004 Posts: 1185
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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This refers only to opted-in (read: post-PK record change) characters that are currently found in the Graveyard posts. So yes. |
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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I coulda sworn Loanir got way more kills than 8 and would be on the knight list... but maybe i'm wrong |
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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Oh scrap that, i forgot i only got my kills recorded right at the end of his career whoops. |
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Sebryn
Joined: 16 Jan 2004 Posts: 1185
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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I don't think Loanir got recorded at all... I didn't find him in the Graveyard posts, so either he wasn't opted in or his thread got deleted somehow.
And keep in mind, there was a formula used here:
For each cabal, "TOTAL PKS" were tallied and the members were ranked. Then "OVERALL EFFICIENCY" (PKs / (PKs + Deaths)) was tallied, and again the members were ranked. These TWO LISTS were then taken into consideration, and each member's RANK from each list was thrown into a calculation ((PK_RANK * 0.35) + (EFF_RANK * 0.65)) to come up with an overall rank. That's what got listed as their "overall ranks," not just how many PKs they had. Look at the Knights: Gunther's ranked above Kelek, even though Kelek had one more PK, because Gunther's efficiency was better.
Think of it sort of like NCAA college football's BCS standings - it makes sense that way... even though I hate the BCS rankings. |
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crazyhorse
Joined: 19 Oct 2005 Posts: 627
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for explaining that one seby.
*Mullet gives Sebryn two thumbs up!*
We are all stupid here at AR. We need a detailed description Burzuk. |
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Sebryn
Joined: 16 Jan 2004 Posts: 1185
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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You're welcome, but I'm just gonna shut the fuck up now.
Last edited by Sebryn on Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:47 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Jamus
Joined: 18 Jun 2005 Posts: 577 Location: Valour
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 1:53 am Post subject: |
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Baer
Joined: 22 Jan 2004 Posts: 618 Location: Michigan
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:43 am Post subject: |
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Wow.
Most definitly did not think I'd make it on this list. At all.
Gives me hope for next year, hah! |
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E-ant
Joined: 16 Jan 2004 Posts: 434 Location: Estonia
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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Aha should've deleted my paladin. |
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FlyingHampster Guest
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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I love the fact that I made number seven on here with Dolgin, really never thought I'd ever make a top anything list when I start out.
*cough* I understand I was let into the graveyard roles by a blessing from you guys, but could I possibly be added to the roles of knights? Dolgin was a knight before my unfortunate 1/4 life crisis. Well atleast honorable mention, I don't wanna knock anyone off over something bitchy like that. |
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_Clifton_ Emissary
Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 1405 Location: your and you're are not the same. they're, there, and their are not the same. learn to english.
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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dolgin sucked, grathin kicked his ass. |
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Sebryn
Joined: 16 Jan 2004 Posts: 1185
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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Records based on Graveyard posts, thus the status of characters (caballed or otherwise) at time of death/deletion. |
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Burzuk Implementor
Joined: 20 Jan 2004 Posts: 529
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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The Overall Top 10 list again:
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NAME KILLS DEATHS EFFICIENCY RANK RANK CABAL CLASS
1. Runath 56 7 88.89% 1 2 [KNIGHT] Paladin
2. Rolf 89 18 83.18% 2 1 [LEGION] Shaman
3. Navatar 51 15 77.27% 3 5 [KNIGHT] Paladin
4. Thkot 53 35 60.23% 6 4 [LEGION] Invoker
5. Thremus 31 16 65.96% 4 9 [JUSTICE] Warrior
6. Orkahn 54 48 52.94% 12 3 [LEGION] Dark-Knight
7. Dolgin 31 24 56.36% 9 10 (None) Healer
8. Istorvir 19 12 61.29% 5 20 [LEGION] Ninja
9. Nychlas 47 47 50.00% 13 6 [WARLORD] Ranger
10. Dharza 21 15 58.33% 7 18 [LEGION] Necromancer
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Now that everyone's had a chance to digest the raw numbers, here are my observations.
Methodology. I chose 65% efficiency and 35% kills (roughly at 2:1) ratio because it's much more difficult to accrue a high efficiency ratio than it is to amass a high body count. Let's face it, most of the deletes were due non-IC reasons (including boredom), and none of the top 10 wound up condying. Also, there is a much larger gap between the top efficiency scores than most people realize. For instance, if all of the top efficiency scorers had lived out their full 61 lives, we'd have:
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NAME KILLS DEATHS EFFICIENCY TKA
1. Runath 56 7 88.89 488
2. Rolf 89 18 83.18 301
3. Navatar 51 15 77.27 207
4. Thremus 31 16 65.96 118
5. Istorvir 19 12 61.29 97
40% EFF. -- -- 40.00 41
50% EFF. -- -- 50.00 61
60% EFF. -- -- 60.00 92
70% EFF. -- -- 70.00 142
80% EFF. -- -- 80.00 244
85% EFF. -- -- 85.00 346
90% EFF. -- -- 90.00 549
93% EFF. -- -- 93.00 810
96% EFF. -- -- 96.00 1464
98% EFF. -- -- 98.00 2989
99% EFF. -- -- 99.00 6039
TKA = TOTAL KILL AVERAGE PER 61 DEATHS
(COMPARE ERA = EARNED RUN AVERAGE PER 9 INNINGS)
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As you can see, you'd have to kill many more targets to improve your efficiency the higher it already is. In fact, while there was only a 6% gap between Runath and Rolf's efficiency, there's a whopping 62% difference between their TKA (i.e. for every 3 kills Rolf makes, Runath can be expected to make 5), and Runath has five times the TKA of Istorvir. These huge gaps were among the reasons why efficiency was weighted almost twice as much as total kills, and to my eye the final Overall Top 10 list looks to have been arranged both logically and intuitively.
I should also add that the Overall Top 10 wound up including 8 of 10 from each of the two Top 10 lists (i.e. 8 of the Top 10 kills and 8 of the Top 10 efficiency), so despite efficiency being weighted more heavily, people who did amass lots of kills were being fairly represented as well.
Class distribution. Out of the 16 classes we have (excluding vampires), 9 different classes were represented in the Overall Top 10. You may not recognize the significance of this until you realize that in a perfectly balanced 16-class mud, a Top 10 list (i.e. randomly chosen since all classes are as equally good as any other) consists of 7.61 different classes. [For math geeks: the formula is C * (1 - (1 - 1/C)^10) where C is the number of classes in the mud.] Yes, we are actually even more "balanced" than is theoretically possible, the difference being explained by variation introduced by the small sample sizes used. But keep this in mind when we discuss how one class is "way overpowered" and another class is "completely gimped": the class diversity of the 2005 Top 10 lists shows that classes on AR are actually very well-balanced already. All we're doing here is even more fine-turning, adding new features, and splitting hairs while arguing on the forum. That's pretty much it. The gameplay balance is already in great shape.
Cabal distribution. When Legions were getting spanked earlier this summer and I told people to relax because it'd blow over, I meant it. And I was right: Legions easily dominated the Overall Top 10 list by the year's end, capturing an impressive half of all available slots. It's the nature of the way evils operate on AR, because when they are ascendent, evils are very powerful. Let this be a lesson to those of you who didn't take evils as the threats that they were, and kudos to those of you we have been playing evil characters.
What may surprise you is the weakest cabal: Justice. Yes, despite all the whining about guards and ensnare. What you don't see is the fact that as we were trying to assemble a top 10 list for each cabal, Justice was the only cabal who couldn't even muster enough members to fill 10 slots, so we had to resort to making top 5 lists for cabals instead. And the recent addition of wild items and weapons haven't helped them one bit at all. Justices are consistently outnumbered and outgunned, they are the hardest cabal to play due to having to do cabal defense and enforce the laws, and since unlike the other cabals they actually have a job to do (and it's so easy to get booted from Justice for making a mistake). Add all this up, and you'll see that Justices desperately need all the breaks (and new members) that they can catch. If you see some changes favoring Justice in the future, you'll know why: because they actually need it. And you shouldn't be surprised if I'm not particularly sympathetic to complaints about how "strong" you think Justice allegedly is, because the numbers don't support that at all.
Plans for next year. As you can see, 2005's Top 10 list was compiled by a simple weighing of two factors. If you've been paying attention to the new graveyard posts for 2006, however, you can see that not only have we worked to improve the numbers by adding anti-padding checks, but we've already begun tracking level 50 stats to boot. You can expect these new statistics to be factored heavily into 2006's Overall Top 10 list, as well as other factors yet to be announced. We want to encourage not simply mass killing, but quality kills against quality opponents, and our stat tracking system will continue to be enhanced to reflect this. The 2005 Top 10 lists are only a starting point -- the lists for 2006 will be even more thorough, interesting, and authoritative. You can count on it. |
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divsky Emissary
Joined: 13 Mar 2004 Posts: 1054 Location: Iowa City, IA
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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 12:40 am Post subject: |
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blah blah blah, did anyone actually read that? |
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marsdey Guest
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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 3:14 am Post subject: |
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Yeah I think I did. Pretty interesting if you do.. |
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druxle Guest
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 11:38 pm Post subject: wow |
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I dont know how etso made 4th in justice |
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Hoarding Healer
Joined: 30 Jan 2004 Posts: 50 Location: Vancouver, BC
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 1:50 pm Post subject: |
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I am surprised Nyemes isn't on there.... |
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Guest
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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Remember this is actually a 'top 10 pkers or 2005 - WHO WERE OPTED IN' the stats are only really from the time when kill stats were recorded and there were a couple of notable people who are not included because of that. |
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