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Doesn that ranking system give an unfair advantage to someone who did extremely well on a high scoring game?

April 26, 2017advantage EXTREMELY high ranking scoring system unfair

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Doesn that ranking system give an unfair advantage to someone who did extremely well on a high scoring game?

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No. All scores are normalized before they are added. For every round played, the top player’s score is set equal to 100, and every other player’s score is calculated as a fraction of that high score. Thus every game played has equal weight.