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Contents 1 Meaning 2 Design fundamentals 3 FAQ - Questions and answers frequently posed 3.1 Q: I have not played for 2 days, why has my rating gone down? 3.2 Q: I had the highest PPM in the session. Why did I still get a red evaluation? 3.3 Q: Why do I have to play 2/3 of the session, why isn't 5 minutes long enough? 3.4 Q: Why is 8 players the minimum amount that must play to get a rated session? 3.5 Q: What does "PPM" mean?

Meaning

Rating reflects the achievement of a player within Splatterladder.

Design fundamentals

Rating is determined within one valid session.

• The rating is calculated from the distribution of the PPM within a session. The better your PPM, the better the rating you will get, and a potentially worse rating for the other players who do not score as well as you in the session.
• The Rating points are distributed between the players in the valid session based on thier PPM-ratio.
• If you have a rating that is twice as high as the average player rating of the session, you must earn twice as many PPM than the average player to receive a yellow -/+0.00 evaluation. A player can receive a good rating dispite not being the best player in the session, if they score a better PPM than is expected against the other players in the session.

You should not be concerned if you receive positive and negative session ratings. Each session is different, and is based on the average rating of all the players in that session.

How can I get a good Rating?: You must simply play against other players with higher rating, and score better PPM than would be expected. For example: If the average player rating of the session is 12.00 and the average PPM is 8, if your rating is also 12.00 you must score over 8 PPM to earn a positive evaluation. However if you have a rating of 24.00 in that same session, you will need to earn at least 16 PPM to earn a positive evaluation.

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FAQ - Questions and answers frequently posed

Q: I have not played for 2 days, why has my rating gone down?

A: If you do not play for two days or longer a small deduction is made from your rating. The value of this deduction goes up each day you do not play.

Q: I had the highest PPM in the session. Why did I still get a red evaluation?

A: You clearly have a much higher rating in Splatterladder than your opponents (AVERAGE rating). If you had played against equivalent opponents, then you may have earned a positive evaluation instead. This was implemented to prevent good players from pumping up thier rating with 'noob-bashing'.

Q: Why do I have to play 2/3 of the session, why isn't 5 minutes long enough?

A: It is only fair that a player, who has played 5 minutes with 20 PPM (100 points in 5 minutes), is not rated exactly the same as a player who earned the same 20 PPM over 30 minutes (600 points in 30 minutes). Therefore we defined a minimum limit to 2/3 of the session length.

Q: Why is 8 players the minimum amount that must play to get a rated session?

A: 8 players is the minimum to get useful data. In the meantime we are already testing ratings with 6 players.

Q: What does "PPM" mean?

A: PPM stands for "Points Per Minute" and contains the value of the points which you earned on average during a ranked session.