Board Game Arena

There's no real need to open comparisons to "esports" broadly. Which ones? Some work with consistent teams and would have ratings in accordance with that, but that's different from the individual ratings, as I said above. For rating individuals in team games where your partner randomly cha...

The rating system is for individual players. The idea of rating teams, and expecting that both players on a team should have the same rating, might make sense if each team of two were tracked as a distinct entity and each player had many ratings with which they were associated, one for each partners...

It does seem like an easy an obvious fix, and the team rating problem has been especially frustrating in the one game I've played competitively in arena. (The team rating system problem affects arena ratings just as it does persistent Elo ratings, compressing the player range by effectively transfer...

At this point the "you can't go back and undo anything or it's all chaos" argument seems like trolling. I've already addressed it, and Michael417 has, and ChiefPointThief, and FrankJones. There is a difference between honest mistakes during a game and cheating. This thread was not opened t...

I'm more of the mind that it would be a bad look to retroactively change the results (especially if they declare the second place the winner). ... Sometimes mistakes happen during games. This is a bizarre take, and the analogy to referees' judgment calls during a game is inapt, whether from failing...