*************resolved with "show savedcount PLAYER" to get an accurate account.*************Patti (jan16,2009)see also http://www.schneiderp.de/~inim/repbot/allreps.html

All saved games got flushed?

How do I go about estimating whether a match with a new opponent will be a waste of time or not?

Ratings can be manipulated. Reputation can be manipulated. The only real measuring stick we had was the saved games! Now it's gone.

I am flabbergasted that the best are now on a completely equal footing with the worst. Why did this happen?

have a look at the threads on repbot for info eg http://www.fibsboard.com/repbot/inflated-saved-games-figures-t2129.0.html;msg16188#new

you still have your saved games available from your client

check what client your invite comes from / "ask" repbot for a rep and you are sorted

use the vouch/complain

have a wonderful new year

So every time someone invites me, I must visit a web site and look up the player's saved games?

Reputation, like ratings, can be altered & manipulated extremely easily. You can have a player with a 200,000 reputation and zero saved games, and one with 200,000 and 400 saved games. Remove the reputation and you've distilled things down to the truth.

The only element of the three key statistics (rating, reputation & saved games) that could not be manipulated by a player was saved games. And it was the most telling and accurate stat of all. You could identify a dropper instantaneously.

To complain to the repbot means I've been dropped and my time has been wasted. This doesn't bring back that time. I had zero saved games because I used the saved game stats to be selective as to whom I engaged with.

Saved game stats were the single most accurate representation of a player that was available to us. The most key tool has been taken away and I would like to know why.

So every time someone invites me, I must visit a web site and look up the player's saved games?

Saved game stats were the single most accurate representation of a player that was available to us. The most key tool has been taken away and I would like to know why.

No, you cant look up saved games anymore, they have been removed.

The link stog gave you was to the thread explaining why that happened, I suggest you read it and add  any comments there.

The summary is that it went wrong and was far too high for each player - making it no longer the single most accurate representation of a player.  All it did was identify those who play a lot of matches, and made them appear bad. 

Now, you just need to look at a players' reputation and check the list of where the rep comes from, then decide whether to play or not.  

socksey



"We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs." - François Fenelon

Or, you could do "show savedcount PLAYER" to get an accurate acount.

Every little war will kill a few innocents. Unless Odesys and Iphone clients are improved, all mobile users are staying on the "villains" list.