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[Spangwiches]

edit: This thread is in programming, just as one would expect.

I'm making a kinda endless flag web quiz/game. Nowt serious/clever, just for the fun of it. Here:

http://uoou.info/flags/

(probably won't yet work well on older browsers)

I originally had the 'score' as the %age of right answers but then people who only played a couple of times, with all correct answers, stayed at the top of the table.

So obviously I needed some sort of weighting. I want to reward people for a combination of playing lots and being right. I currently have:

rv + cm / v + m

r = player's %age right answers
v = player's number of plays
m = global average number of plays per player
c = global average %age right answers

(c is everyone's %age score added together then divided by the number of players NOT percentage of total right answers / total answers)

Ok so this is all fine. Works pretty well for the top and middle of the table:

http://uoou.info/flags/stats.php

But not at the bottom. The bottom player, with 63% right answers and lots of plays should ideally be somewhere mid-table I think. Certainly not below someone with 40% right and quite few plays.

I'm not great at maths. I kinda see what it's doing - punishing for high plays while being below the average %age. Can anyone with more of a maths-head than me suggest a way to rectify that sort of thing without messing too much with the top of the table?

Thanks!
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[nelz]

Moved to Programming.
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[Spangwiches]

Thank you!
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[johnhudson]

What about rv/cm?

Putting r over c rewards those who get higher scores; putting v over m rewards those who play more often?

[Spangwiches]

Just tried that and it's too closely tied to 'right answers', in fact it's exactly the same order and the resultant score is ~half 'right answers'.
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[Spangwiches]

... that sounds wrong. Maybe I did it wrong. I shall retry.
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[Spangwiches]

Yeah, just verified that. Not entirely sure why it behaves that way but it essentially gives a proportion of the right answers figure (not saying it actually does - it just tracks it perfectly).

edit: Actually, it makes perfect sense. %right x total answers is of course going to relate to right answers. Hmm.

Another edit:

just tried:

%player_right * player_right_answers / %global_right * global_total_answers

Now it overly rewards number of plays. Far too far in the other direction. Maths is hard.
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[kvonh]

Perhaps you could post it as a question in your quiz?

[Spangwiches]

Ahaha
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