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haplo
Posted - 12/16/2011 : 15:28:17 Not a big enough change to be worthy of a post on the news forum, but some of you may have noticed a change (Toast already did), so here's an explanation of the change in case you were wondering.
Here's what happened. That particular stat (1st place scores) appears in several places: the number on your profile page, the number on the history section of your profile, the history page itself that lists the games where you have the top score, the top players community page, and also the leaderboard whenever that happens to be the objective.
I noticed a discrepancy between some of those appearances of that stat. Looked into it and found that I was calculating it correctly in 1 or 2 places, but had calculated it lazily in most of the other places. The HIGHER stat was where I was doing it lazily... it was only looking for scores where no one had a higher score than you. This did not account for the fact that on some games the top score was tied among several players, in fact on several games like over a dozen players have the highest "numerical" score.
The more accurate method, and the one I have chosen to use, is to only count your score as a "1st place score" if you are LITERALLY in first place -- meaning you are at the very top of the list. The list of scores for any particular game is, of course, sorted by score first but then sorted by date. Meaning the first person to get a particular score is ranked higher than subsequent players that get the same score.
So I have changed it in all the places so that you have to have no one with a higher score than you, and ALSO you have to have no one that has an EQUAL score as you but got their score before you did (looking at the timestamp of when the score occurred). Apparently, I missed one place -- the top players page. So it has been updated to use the new calculation.
Sorry if you feel any disappointment at this stat now being lower for you than it was, but the consolation is that the same is true for everyone else :). All the games where it was counting it as a "1st place score" for a dozen players or more (because of a tie), now that only counts for the ABSOLUTE #1 player.
Hope that is descriptive enough for you to understand exactly why this change occurred. :) I believe the stat should be accurate and consistent in all locations throughout the site now.
