Darkcanuck/RRServer/Updates

5-Oct-2008: Sorting for Fun & Profit (+ Glicko-2)

SVN Revision 14 15
Pairing and battle detail views can now be sorted like the rankings view.
- Finally you can group your worst ProblemBots together!
- PBI, Expected scores still use Glicko ratings, looking for feedback now that both Elo & Glicko are displayed together.
Added Glicko-2 ratings; uses existing Glicko rating as initial value. Let's see how this works out.

SVN Revision 11
Added Elo scoring based on old server's code.
- Includes rating "jumpstart": bots with >50 battles start at an ideal rating based on APS.
- This is causing slower uploads but should clear up once all bots get Elo ratings.
Ratings updates now done after every upload (no more periodic update).
Ratings use all available pairings for each update (slow, but this is the classic method).
Streamlined battle results table to use only one record per battle (was two); user data now in separate table.
- Table size down to 30% of previous.

Added priority pairings and battle number output to clients. I missed this last time around.
Tweaked database performance for results uploading.
Ratings rebuild has caught up, so rankings are now up-to-date within the last minute!
Melee rankings are starting to fill out.
Many thanks to GrubbmGait and [Darkstorm]] for generously contributing battles

One week, 4 clients uploading without any major issues. 68,148 battles in the general rumble so far.
No outstanding "known" bugs at this point (fingers crossed).
Added Glicko ratings and flushed existing pairings & ratings yesterday. That means the ratings are still rebuilding, and will probably catch up sometime tomorrow.
Added table sorting on the main rankings pages.
Added support for melee (works) and teams (my client doesn't work for teams so this is untested).