Feedback on the WPPR estimator.
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First of all, I love it! It’s super fast and it already knows what tournament I’m looking at. While I loved to use the chunkout one, those are two killer improvements right off the bat.
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Add my vote to the request to let organizers set the default value to show to users. I think it would be nice to still let anyone override that to keep it flexible though. It’s more important to let the player enter in the TGP they want to see, but if you can also let the organizer supply the default that’s a big improvement.
On top of that, I think it’s actually an important feature. I’ve asked local players what they think of the feature and they’ve told me they love it because they get to see the points they can get. These are players who are excited to get 0.4 WPPRs. But they don’t really understand TGP. So I worry that their excitement about the feature will turn to disappointment when they realize they’re getting half of the predicted WPPRs for a tournament with an actual TGP of 48%.
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I’d love to see you incorporate the standings from the playoffs into the WPPR Distribution table! I’ve always found it frustrating that there’s nowhere to see the standings from qualifying and finals combined. I understand that you can’t just replace the playoff standings with info from the finals; but this seems like the perfect place to put a combined view.
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It’d be nice for it to account for ties. I see that you have a banner with a note about this. Ties are something that the IFPA has a clear algorithm for, but it’s not intuitive (in my opinion). So if you are able to incorporate ties into this feature it’d be pretty valuable by showing how they work. Tie rules are summarized here.
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You currently list these stats at the top of the page:
- WPPR value
- TGP percentage
- Players
I propose changing the order and the phrasing to:
- Players
- TGP percentage (estimated by TD)
- WPPR value for 1st
The order implies cause and effect. Players are who showed up, there’s not much control over that. TGP is sometimes influenced by player count (e.g. strikes formats). WPPRs is influenced by both player count and TGP. All three fit above the fold, so I think it’s still ok to list WPPRs last even though it’s the most important of the three. Obviously only include “(estimated by TD)” if you go with the first feature suggested in this post and if the TD has provided a value. “For 1st” is just to help clarify how that is used for players who are new to thinking about tournament points value.
And just to reiterate, if you don’t make any of these changes it’s still a great feature.