Current Top Player List
After posting my all time list and listening to discussions over it, it became apparent that a number of people who are currently active in the game didn't value or were not very interested in reading that kind of list. This is perfectly understandable, as many of you don't have any real connection to the players mentioned in it. As a result of this, I've decided to try and create something more relevant to the game today, as well as generally provide more stuff for the community to read, by creating a top list based on the current active player base.
However, I decided to try to produce this list a little differently to what we're used to. Over the last few days I have collected ten different lists from various players which detail who they feel are the current best twenty players within the active community. I have then taken those lists and averaged the rankings that players received to form the list you see below. The person with the lowest average ranking will be placed at number one and so on, until we have a list of twenty players. My hope is that by using this method it will go some ways to balancing out the different opinions that people have, so we end up with a list that will be an acceptable representation for most of us with regards to the current state of the game, with information that has been provided by the community.
There are a few things I want to explain before we get to the list.
- Only people who were ranked in 50% (5) or more of the lists were eligible for the final list. This was to try and make sure the average they had was as accurate as possible.
- It was left up to the list makers to decide for themselves what constituted active, so there is a little variance there. 21 people were ranked five or more times, 38 were ranked in total.
- Player exposure counts for a lot. There are a few people who are very much actively playing and who should likely feature in a top twenty list, but were left out of certain lists. Presumably either due to the list maker simply forgetting about the player or deeming them to not be active enough.
- This list would only get more accurate the more rankings I had to work with. With only ten list's worth of information it's far from perfect, but it's a start.
- Due to there only being ten lists, rankings that are very different from the norm have a big affect on a players final average. With that in mind, I took a couple of steps to help see what a players average could have been without those outlying rankings. The numbers in red are the numbers that were considered to be anomalies. "Average" is the average with every ranking taken in to account. "Adjusted Average" is the average without the red ranking.
- Rankings were considered to be an anomaly when they were +/- 4 from a players initial average. A difference in rank of 4 is equal to 20% of the list (20 total ranks) and represents a relatively big disparity in player opinion. So if somebody came out with an average of 7, and one of their rankings was a 12, that 12 is ignored in their adjusted average.
1. Sebek
Ranked 10 out of 10 times.
Rankings: 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 5, 10
Average: 2.9
Adjusted Average: 2.1
2. Tobiashi
Ranked 9 out of 10 times.
Rankings: 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 4, 4, 7, 7
Average: 3.2
Adjusted Average: -
3. Parrotman
Ranked 10 out of 10 times.
Rankings: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 7
Average: 4.3
Adjusted Average: -
4. Drue
Ranked 10 out of 10 times.
Rankings: 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8
Average: 4.6
Adjusted Average: -
5. Yoshi
Ranked 9 out of 10 times.
Rankings: 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11
Average: 5
Adjusted Average: 4.3
6. Akma
Ranked 9 out of 10 times.
Rankings: 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 12
Average: 6.4
Adjusted Average: 5.8
7. Astrok
Ranked 7 out of 10 times.
Rankings: 1, 5, 6, 8, 8, 8, 11
Average: 6.7
Adjusted Average: 7
8. Tengo
Ranked 10 out of 10 times.
Rankings: 3, 5, 6, 7, 7, 8, 9, 9, 10, 11
Average: 7.5
Adjusted Average: 8
9. Unreal
Ranked 10 out of 10 times.
Rankings: 4, 6, 6, 6, 8, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Average: 8
Adjusted Average: 8
10. Dario
Ranked 7 out of 10 times.
Rankings: 3, 7, 9, 10, 10, 11, 12
Average: 8.9
Adjusted Average: 9.8
11. Genocide
Ranked 5 out of 10 times.
Rankings: 6, 9, 10, 12, 12
Average: 9.8
Adjusted Average: -
12. Riptide
Ranked 9 out of 10 times.
Rankings: 9, 9, 9, 10, 11, 11, 12, 13, 15
Average: 11
Adjusted Average: 10.5
13. Benevolence
Ranked 9 out of 10 times.
Rankings: 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 14, 16, 19
Average: 13.1
Adjusted Average: 12.9
14. Ridden
Ranked 8 out of 10 times.
Rankings: 8, 11, 11, 14, 15, 16, 16, 17
Average: 13.5
Adjusted Average: 14.3
15. Clouds
Ranked 10 out of 10 times.
Rankings: 12, 12, 12, 13, 14, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19
Average: 14.6
Adjusted Average: 14.1
16. Bigdaddy
Ranked 7 out of 10 times.
Rankings: 13, 14, 15, 15, 16, 17, 17
Average: 15.3
Adjusted Average: -
17. Phot0n
Ranked 5 out of 10 times.
Rankings: 8, 16, 16, 18, 20
Average: 15.6
Adjusted Average: 16.7
18. Loki
Ranked 5 out of 10 times.
Rankings: 14, 16, 17, 17, 18
Average: 16.4
Adjusted Average: -
19. Ectogon
Ranked 5 out of 10 times.
Rankings: 15, 16, 18, 18, 18
Average: 17
Adjusted Average: -
20. Dip
Ranked 7 out of 10 times.
Rankings: 15, 17, 17, 18, 18, 19, 19
Average: 17.6
Adjusted Average: -
21. Insomniac
Ranked 5 out of 10 times.
Rankings: 13, 18, 19, 20, 20
Average: 18
Adjusted Average: 19.3
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The rest of the players who were rated;
Bone - 4, 7, 13, 13
Assailant - 13, 13, 15, 19
ArcSlayer - 16, 16, 20, 20
Fudorm - 10, 15, 20
Masta - 17, 18, 20
Cyro - 17, 20, 20
Bertrada - 1, 3
Domey - 14, 19
Fight3r - 5
Sparkinator - 13
Faur - 14
Envy - 14
Seahaven - 15
Turbo - 19
Cartman - 19
Shootme - 19
A list based on the adjusted average only;
1. Sebek 2.1
2. Tobiashi 3.2
=3. Drue 4.3
=3. Yoshi 4.3
4. Parrotman 4.6
5. Akma 5.8
6. Astrok 7
=7. Tengo 8
=7. Unreal 8
=8. Dario 9.8
=8. Genocide 9.8
9. Riptide 10.5
10. Benevolence 12.9
11. Clouds 14.1
12. RoboTech 14.3
13. Bigdaddy 15.3
14. Loki 16.4
15. Photon 16.7
16. Ectogon 17
17. Niveus 17.6
18. Insomniac 19.3
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