Request: A better scoring system

[barank]

[Toninja]

ELO has some problems regarding player activity and pairing which are already apparent. Our bot is unbeaten thus far and is ranked at 120 when I'm pretty sure we can beat at least half of the bots ahead of us if only we would have the chance to play against them...

[amstan]

Yeah, don't worry, we'll try to fix that.

[user111]

Hello, I have a question about scoring. I submitted a bot and it ranked in the 200's. I made changes and resubmitted, and it ranked in the 300's. I went back to the original bot thinking I had make an error, and the bot that was ranked in the 200's ranked in the 400's the next submission. It seems that every time I submit, my score drops drastically, even if it's the same code. Any comments? Thanks.

[jeff.cameron]

You have to give the bot a few minutes at least for its ranking to stabilize. We're finding that it takes an hour at most for a bot's ranking to stabilize under the new Elo-based ranking algorithm.