Thanks for all the hard work Roger and Al.  None of my players got over 7 last session, time for some motivational speaking.

I was interested that my setter in the Cinci vs Alton game got a lower rating than the Alton setter.  In all metrics he was better apart from not getting any Aces on serve (5-0) and a couple of blocks less, so I expected him to be higher.  I guess the aces have prompted the higher rating?

On the Cinci Alton game. For player skill ratings a setter gets over half his points from SET so I'm guessing Roger weighs this into the match rating. I also think he uses Assists/SET which was higher for Alton.

On why OHs don't get 9s I looked at it this way.

If a player has one significant skill and you toss a coin, heads=good, tails=bad he'll get a good score 50% of the time.

If he has two significant skills he needs to get 2 heads for a good score: 25%

And with 3 it's 12.5% for a good score.

OHs have 5 skills that go to their skill rating but middle blockers only 3 so I'm not surprised OHs get less 9s.

Ah ok - so "number of" rather than a successful completion %. Thanks Steve. 

Hi James, thanks for flagging.  I've run the numbers on my spreadsheet and got a 7.51 rating for your Setter.  I'll check with Al and see if we can identify where the discrepancy arises.  This is still lower than Alton's, albeit marghinally now.  You both scored the maximum number of setting points. Alvarez rated higher in Kills and Setting, while Chapelle had a better digging and blocking performance - and by just enough to be rated higher. 

Apologies James, I made a mistake when checking the figures. The rating is right and the significant difference between the two players was Assists, as Steve guessed, which earned Chapelle 5.6 out of a possible 5,6 and Alvarez "only" 4.76.

So who made "team of the week"?

I have a 7,99 and a 7,84 in game 44 as the best Squirrels.

Best player was probably Jace Wood (L) for Denali - 9.43 in the Kentucky game and a 7.18 against San Diego

Argh my eyes....too many numbers and sums...

Now that we have some player ratings in place, THANK YOU ROGER!...

I'm working on a "fool proof" (haha) process to create the team of the week.

So my first session I see this.  Two RS players (I need to pick 1) that are tied for the top spot.

I could do a lot of "co-RS of the week" type stuff, but I don't want to.  When I come up with this I want one winner (or two winners if its an OH or MB for example).  

Does anyone have suggestions on tiebreakers.  It could be per position skills or just a general list.  Like:

- most matches played (if a player plays 3 and gets the high avg rating while a player plays 2 and gets the same avg rating I like the 3-match player better; but that's a rare tiebreaker I think)

- most aces (overall session)

- most kills (overall session)

- most digs (overall session)

- most assists (overall session)

and so on.

Again, I'm okay with doing this by position (such as setter where certain skills like assists might be better)  or a generic list.  

Too much math. Can we just change these ratings to "good" and "bad?"

I'd go for top rated in the most weighted skill for the position, as that represents what's key for the role the player has in the team, moving down the skills in order until one player tops out. If they're equal all the way either go for something like Aces or just get Olmec to choose by flipping a metaphorical coin. You just know the first person to lose a coin toss would be Craig and his reaction would be hilarious 😆 

Imagine a world where John had no math.   😎

Thanks Roger.  I will look into that approach unless I hear another one to consider.

I think the idea of Roger is a good idea. 

I was thinking the opposite and go for the least or not used. For instance a Setter's attack isn't used and he can be a liability trying dumps that get defended. 

So I was going to suggest using kills/set or attack rating as the tie breaker.

God I wish I had the time to read all this....I'd probably learn something....

No doubt I'll ask questions answered in this thread in a season or two's time and everyone will say 'where have you been?'

Thanks Pierre, Steve, and CB for your feedback.  

Steve: Thanks for that idea in particular.  

Working through the coding and queries now for Team of the Week.  This first week is heavily manual.  Hoping on Sunday to have it in the simulator so its automatic.  

The list below is a pretty solid TOTW 6 players for session 1.  As for the RS, it depends on the feedback and what I decide I guess for tiebreakers (so much controversy!).  I can't wait to see what the conspiracy theorists among us do with the "professionally redacted RS results" below...   😎🤔👀

Nice TOTW, but it would be nicer if some players of the Mushroom are in/on it. 

Please note that we're still tweaking the system. The average rating should now be around 6.5. There's probably too many 10s at Libero and too few at RS. I'm sure there's other stuff aswell. Again please shout if you see something that looks odd

Jonas Schiffer is only a Sophomore! That's not scary at all..

A worthwhile addition to the game , it help myself as it will give a better insight into what makes teams successful

Al, I really like the Top 10 players table in the test home page. However, I feel like I'd prefer the Conference Team of the Week if we can only have one.

I love this idea. This is more fuel for the fish to perform at their absolute best! And also another way for their manager to complain about how Olmec hates him.

I've updated this (see the top of this page with a "Click here" to get to the team of the week stuff for now).

Roger: Hopefully this is what you had in mind.

Rob:  The A-Fish DO land an Oh on the SEC Team of the Week: Rafael Rocha.  

Better than I had in mind Al 😃