Hi pilots,
since i frequented this site the first time i'm asking for a better scoring system that could indicate the real strengt of a player. I feel this as a must!
The statistics make fakes. For two reasons, first of all, you don't know witch scenario and plane are used, even if much has been done. But the second reason is that you don't know the real power of people against he played... there are good pilots, great pilots ad bad pilots... but a kill is alwais a kill.
The best solution, in my opinion, is to have a self-adaptive evalutation system. the system should compare the strenght of the two players and make a table, if the "strong player One" wins it would give him few points, if the "weak player Two" wins give him many points. In case of even game give few points to the weaker player. In the mean time, the loser player would lose the same ammount of points the winning would have.
Chess players use the Elo rating system that, even if not perfect, is much better than simple statistics!
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_systemAn interesting concept, but given the number - and variety - of scenarios, I think it would be really tough to calculate. For example, some people play a lot of 1 vs 1 matches and others gravitate toward large scale matches. Quantifying and assigning valid weights to all the possible variables would be a major undertaking. However, I'm not a mathematician, so what do I know ?