It's a meaningless bit of data. I'm not sure where they'd even bother to put it, though I wouldn't care if the graphs of elo progression showed where the rating points local extrema were at the peaks and falls. Some random searchable bit maybe, if we had a table that let us search up some information, though hardly worth listing unprompted, too much space, especially when you get into multiple games.
One of the more obvious offenders for elo peak nonsense are the high k factor rushes where a player hits a high they'll never reach again due to a lucky streak under the high k factor, where matching it later would require a greater number of consistent wins. It's possible in games where a player never bothers to improve, but even more so in games with low enough ratings players sweep their way near the top on a lucky run with a new account, which gets cleaned up when they inevitably lose or are inactive.
blargh_bah wrote: ↑18 October 2026, 15:40
Care to expand?
Considering we track ELO, have a progression chart, and have a ranking based on ELO. There are achievements for ELO.
Yes, elo. Saying we have things for elo does not mean we have to have something for peak elo in particular.
Hagardunor wrote: ↑19 October 2026, 16:47
Curiously I published the same idea just one day after present post was first published.
I would REALY like to have the highest ELO available. Although it may not be a perfect representation of one's skills, it would be nevertheless a kind of trophy that is not more or less stupid that all the rewards and medals that are poured in my profile (I have got over 300 such chocolate medals)
My post is here :
https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=51930
You can vote for it here :
https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=251040
Plenty of meaningless trophies we could delete, sure. Though I'm not sure what this has to do with adding another, such a standard isn't really driing excitement to make more of it. Also, trophies are generally specifically completable accomplishments. So comparing them to peak elo, which is a continuous factor and not a single event, makes even less sense.
Hagardunor wrote: ↑19 October 2026, 16:50
Jellby wrote: ↑18 October 2026, 07:30
It should not, because peak elo is meaningless.
Current ELO is not more meaningful, if not less
Saying where someone is currently located is rather nifty information to have. Hardly the end be all of everything, but that's why it keeps adding revisions, and also makes graphs showing the path taken quite helpful, letting players look over discrepancies, of which highest elo often can be. That combination of information can indicate if a player is within or outside their regular performance.
FrankJones wrote: ↑19 October 2026, 21:33
Jellby wrote: ↑18 October 2026, 17:08
Elo, as a measure of skill, is only meaningful when considering averages and trends. The instantaneous elo is greatly affected by the latest results, especially in high-variance (luck) games. Peak elo is only a measure of the luckiest winning streak (or of the ability to game the system).
The same is true for the winner of an arena season though, isn't it? The winner is whoever happens to have the highest Arena score at an arbitrary instantaneous moment. But we still award trophies/achievements/XP and such based on this.
I see no harm in having "highest peak Elo" available as a viewable piece of information.
The act of winning an arena season isn't all that special, sure. One could argue holding first in Arena for a period of time or a certain amount of games might be more accurate, though just labelling Arena winners through predetermined timelines is much more straightforward, plus the success condition is much easier to follow. Makes it way easier to manage rotating to a new season too, so there are organizational reasons for having it like that even if it's not perfect from a gameplay standard.
Peak elo is one of hose things that wouldn't kill the site to add, but probably isn't worth the effort, or the space to place it for every game. A detail searchable under a larger search engine for random stuff like that maybe, but not much else.
