Recent content by peekpeek

When you're 60,000 away from the top, you probably should be getting more than 100~300 points per match. Should be in the range of ~1000. HOWEVER, there's probably a delay issue. You really have to think about how old the info is. Are you sure you're 60k from the top? GSP goes up every...

I agree with a lot of this. The first set of matchups you list is spot-in, but the next largest complaints should be about the characters that have easy moves that power through BJ's kart super armor. Link and Young Link are absolute nightmare matchups. I don't think the heavyweights are...

Shulk is better than the results indicate, but hard to learn and from a relatively unpopular series. Marth is better than those results indicate but there's not a lot of reason to play him over Lucina (probably a top 5 character) so his placement is misleading. Post-buff Incineroar is better...

So Nintendo's statement that online subscriptions have slowed really agrees with the reduced rate of GSP that is easily observable. It seems like there are finally <10,000 new players per day. I'll probably cobble together a graph or something. Day 10: 1,573,150 Day 15: 1,818,000 Day 20...

That is totally explicable by just regular Rank/Rating mechanics. When you are near the top (high Elite), winning or losing a few doesn't really change your Rank. When you are in a higher density distribution (near the Elite threshold), your rating moves past more players per game, because...

He's more than okay at edgeguarding. He doesn't have a lot of good "kill confirms", though-- Kart Spin, F-smash, B-Air, Jab-Combo, F-Air, Hammer Smack after Up-B, are his "main" kill moves. But for edgeguarding, he has so many good and safe options. 1) If they come in low, walk off the stage...

People specifically buy $200 controllers to make it easier to do those "basic input motions", and they aren't designed to be easily done in $30 GC controllers. So no **** people don't like doing them.

K Rool's cannonball. If they reflect it back, Palutena's shield is still typically active, which reflects and basically 0% kills due to the multipliers of each of the three reflects.

I think people are making GSP out to be way more complicated than it really is. It is a Rank system painted over a fairly traditional Elo-esque rating/MMR system. Most of the behavior gets explained by that simple structure and that Ratings are more center-heavy than usual due to the game...

Yeah, I think calling him mid is at kind of egregious. I don't think people are accounting for how many characters there are. Ness will show up in most "Top 25" lists, i.e. the Top Third, which to me places him distinctly out of "mid". Naming the first 12 that beat him out for top third may...

So this updated to now only use 3 days worth of data rather than 7. That's a big improvement in the reliability, especially as the overall rate of GSP growth has slowed. I don't think there's any indication that GSP treshholds differ between characters, so you should show a top-level average...

Elite Smash isn't really an enigma. Look up the highest GSP, then multiply it by 0.97. That's your threshold, or is within a single win from it. All of this is right. Worry about winning and losing games, not about the final Rank. Rank gets better when you are winning more than you are...

I think this gets at something interesting. With 72 "real" characters right now, it is pretty easy for people to come up with very rough top-third, middle-third, bottom-third tier lists. If forcing a rigid 24-per-bin, Ness, Yoshi, and Rob would probably be some of the higher variance on the...

The reduced the K-rating of the underlying MMR/Elo-esque system, I believe. Rank swings very slightly less than it used to? That, plus some changes to "default" GSP for un-played characters, probably. My Bowser Jr. dropping behind a previously lower GSP character is hard to explain unless...

Plant is really good. Comeback is amazing and almost impossible to edge guard effectively. The damn thing is going to be everywhere for the next week or two, so I don't even want to bother playing characters that have to edge guard to do well. Seriously, that might be the single best comeback...