How should PG-HQ count scenario plays for player stats

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That sounds fair as I concur that there is benefit to playing both sides; however,  I'm not tech-savvy enough to evaluate how much more work it would be for the site moderator. If there's more than a couple of clicks for him, I'd hesitate on that because there is probably enough work in maintaining the site as is. The other issue is that it would be changing the ranking system midstream, which might be a concern to some folks.

The first scheme would be to figure out how the points would work. My rather complicated idea would be to have the first play of a scenario count at 1 point (solo or shared). After that each play is worth ½ point. One shared play after the first play may gain another half point, if the opposing player also logs the play.

For example, Felipe and I play Bogdanovo with me as the Germans. I would get one point for the play. We switch sides and play again. I get ½ point. It will go to a full point when Felipe records that play. If I want to play solo, it will only be ½ point regardless.

It might be easier for coding to double all the point values. If so, Drew would simply double all our play scores and the rank thresholds when the scheme is implemented.

 

Typo in second option. Can't edit that I think. Sorry

I think we got the idea. I think it can be edited out, but I think it also kills the poll data. Not worth the trouble or the risk.

As a childish musing. I wolder how many players looked at the poll and wondered if they could triple their points.

I feel like you are getting more complicated than we need, and removing a clear metric such as plays and instead implementing a points system for those plays is counter intuitive for not much benefit versus just recording the extra plays as whole plays. If we did go down the abstract point values for ranks path, why not just fully decouple plays from ranks entirely so we can still have that simple plays stat on our page?

But as to your last point, yes the intention does seem to be to double or triple people's rank plays on record via shared plays. And in fairness, if they are actually playing twice, once on each side, its hard to say its not deserved.