It sounds like a stupid joke but it would actually be quite interesting stats wise to see how the leaderboard develops. I've always wondered how impactful playerbase/game count size is for determining how high the top players of a game are and this would be the perfectly sterile way to see such a thing.
I was quite surprised to see people could get such high ranks in games like carassonne and ticket to ride, the avg ratings in the top 10 there are 765.3 and 783.1 respectively whereas something like terra mystica has a top 10 avg of 690.7. I'm no expert but I wouldn't say TTR and carcassonne are necessarily more skillful games than terra mystica. But because players at <101 rating cannot lose rating, more rating keeps being fed into the pool which could be the reason why the more popular games (ttr/carcassonne have 20x the games of terra mystica) have a more "bulked up" playerbase than others which means the elo range will naturally go higher / spread wider? I'm not sure but an experiment like this would be a cool way to get more of an idea about this. Of course the coinflip game should be kept forever so that it can accumulate data, not just for april fools only.
After writing this I realized this could just be tested in a chatgpt prompt but its ten times cooler/funnier to have actual people trying to get high ranked in literal coinflip.
I was quite surprised to see people could get such high ranks in games like carassonne and ticket to ride, the avg ratings in the top 10 there are 765.3 and 783.1 respectively whereas something like terra mystica has a top 10 avg of 690.7. I'm no expert but I wouldn't say TTR and carcassonne are necessarily more skillful games than terra mystica. But because players at <101 rating cannot lose rating, more rating keeps being fed into the pool which could be the reason why the more popular games (ttr/carcassonne have 20x the games of terra mystica) have a more "bulked up" playerbase than others which means the elo range will naturally go higher / spread wider? I'm not sure but an experiment like this would be a cool way to get more of an idea about this. Of course the coinflip game should be kept forever so that it can accumulate data, not just for april fools only.
After writing this I realized this could just be tested in a chatgpt prompt but its ten times cooler/funnier to have actual people trying to get high ranked in literal coinflip.
