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Steamhammer and Randomhammer swap ranks

Since uploading version 1.3, I’ve been bemused to watch Steamhammer’s elo fall to near 2100, while Randomhammer’s rose to over 2150. I’m sure that they haven’t really switched places, since Randomhammer has been winning as zerg. The rating swap is some combination of luck and the effects of the voting system. The reversal has already partly reversed itself.

I have gotten a clearer view of new weaknesses, though. One weakness is caused by making emergencies too short, so that after a difficult defense Steamhammer makes drones and tech instead of replenishing its combat squads, and may lose to the next attack. (Someday I’ll solve that in a more principled way.)

I have to put the big effort into opponent modeling, though. I boasted big goals and I have to meet at least some of them.

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PurpleWaveJadien on :

There's a ton of noise in Elo. One bot can easily swing 100 points in any direction.

MicroDK on :

Indeed! I have a feeling that the ICCUP rating is much more accurate.

LetaBot on :

Next blog post about the StaCraft 2 API that has been released?

Jay Scott on :

It’s great news for some people. I’m sticking with the game I love, so for me it’s only another bit of off-topic news flitting by. :-)

krasi0 on :

Word! Same here :-)

MicroDK on :

I will not abandon BW for now, but I will take a look at the SC2 api and the CommandCenter bot. Any plans for a SC2 tournament in the future?

Joseph Huang on :

RH has been rolling zerg a lot, may have something to do with it. A lot of bots have subpar openings vs random.

MicroDK on :

Yah! Not knowing the race is espacially bad for Zerg.

krasi0 on :

Good news! We now display the ICCUP formula based ratings, too ^^

MicroDK on :

Thanks! It was a bit difficult to sort by the ICCUP rating letter. ;)

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