October 17, 2014
With the recent update to adjust the calculation of a team’s strength factor in April 2014, the WFTDA Rankings Committee re-evaluated the value of the game type multiplier in the rankings algorithm. This multiplier gave additional weight to tournament games, with Championships games being the highest value and regular sanctioned games the lowest.
With input and approval from WFTDA Membership, it was concluded that with the improvement to the strength factor algorithm, the use of the game multiplier did not realistically reflect the true value of a game score. Therefore the game type multiplier was removed from the algorithm.
Starting with the October 2014 rankings release, the rankings algorithm no longer incorporates tournament weights.
More information is provided in the updated Rankings Calculator White Paper.
October 2014 rankings are available here.
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