Win Rate should be Wins/Losses

dunniteowl, on May 08 2021 - 23:40, said:     I think YOU'RE missing the point.  The difference in the way it's tabulated, as I said in my FIRST post on this RIDICULOUS topic, is that there would NOT be enough of a difference to make a difference.   If you're trying to do this to make 'people feel better' about their scores, then you're doing it wrong.   If folks want better scores, there is ONE sure fire way to do that -- step up and take the time to learn more and get better.   You don't think they should purposely let everyone that can't hit the damn ball get on base in baseball do you?  You don't think everyone is supposed to score a goal in soccer or football do you?  Do you really think they should all get 'participation' trophies so that they 'feel better' about their less than average performance, do you?   I'll grant you that in plenty of situations WHEN TRAINING folks how to play, that giving them chances to do every part of the game WHILE they're being trained and taught about the game.  All that said, you don't give them awards for learning how.  Awards are provided for folks who EXCEL.  That's the way it's supposed to be, because we all recognize we shouldn't celebrate and encourage mediocrity.   If folks need to 'feel better' about themselves, a game is NOT THE PLACE for that, regardless of how well or poorly they play it.  In fact, I can respect the talent and skill necessary for technically good players to do what they do, but that in no way requires me to stand up and cheer.  It's a game.  An unimportant one at that.   Nothing important EVER happens here and nothing short of the badges and statistics awarded during play should be granted over it.   I'm not a great player.  I'm just slightly above average.  I don't ask anyone to do anything to make my situation be better, feel better or look better.  It is what it is and being something of a realist, I can totally accept my spot on the ladder of skill in this -- or any other game.  I'm here to improve my personal skill at the game while I'm having fun.  If my stats bothered me, I'd do something about them.     Important concept involved here: *I*, not someone else, not WG, not a requested change in the game to make it easier for me for whatever reason, would DO something to make that change.  Well, when I started and played I was a 47/48% player.  After a while, I realized that I wasn't having as much fun and I didn't really like my stats.   But who generated those stats?   Me.  Just me.  Sure, there are other factors involved in the overall distribution of me on a curve that involves 29 other people each game I play, but overall, *I* am the arbiter of my fate and my stats, just as I am the arbiter of my 'feeling good' about playing the game.  No-one else has this 'obligation' if you could call it that.   This sort of conversation is patently absurd.  If you don't like where you 'stand' on the ladder of skill and feels, then YOU have to do something about it.  No-one else should have a say or a hand in it.     And in the wise words of Forrest, Forrest Gump, "That's all I have to say about that."   As to the responses to my opinion on grading, those are EXCEPTIONS to the general rule and you both know it.  Regardless, the primary example of grading is still just as ridiculous to compare this game as regards being 'good' or not.  Here 50% is considered above average and decently skilled -- enough to be considered at least 'competent' -- we're not talking Biomedical Research or becoming a doctor, where you would expect things to be a bit different.  Even so, these are STILL ridiculous comparisons to a GAME ffs.     GL, HF & HSYBF!
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