What are the different ranking methods?

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A ranking method is applied to a metric group (e.g. Power Score in the example shown below) to determine how metric scores (e.g. for Klout, etc in example below) within the group will be combined to create a total score for each player.



Rise currently supports 3 different ranking methods as follows:

Sum [default]

This is the standard ranking method - all metric scores for each player are simply added together to create a grand total.
Use this when your metrics are all of the same type - e.g. you are adding apples to apples. Typically this is when:
- all metrics are POINTS
- all metrics are the same type - e.g. Currency $

Relative

Players are given a proportion of a 100 points dependent on their rank calculated on the actual metric scores and the number of players participating. e.g.
1. on a board of 100 players, the top ranked player gets 100, the second ranked player gets 99, the third ranked player gets 98 and so on
2. on a board of 3 players, the top ranked player gets 100, the second ranked player gets 66.7, the third ranked player gets 33.3

Position

Players are given a score according to their rank for each metric. e.g. the top player gets 1, the second gets 2 and so on. In this scenario, you would typically set the ranking order for the board to be "Lowest is the Best Score"

Further resources:

Bulletins & Score Algorithm

  1. Why leaderboards are best throttled?
  2. Scorecard Bulletins Explained
  3. How to manually create a scorecard bulletin for your scorecard?
  4. How to automate scorecard bulletin generation?
  5. Why is my scorecard not updating / refreshing?
  6. Can we have a shorter time period between leaderboard releases?
  7. Is there a way to reset a scorecard?
  8. I get the error message - Yurg! I cannot generate the leaderboard as there seems to be a problem with your player data.
  9. How do I delete a Scorecard Bulletin?
  10. How can I set the auto generated scorecard bulletin name?
  11. Why can I not see all my users on the latest leaderboard?
  12. How do I award my players badges?
  13. How to attach a blog post to a particular scorecard bulletin
  14. Hall of Fame
  15. What are the different ranking methods?
  16. Options for Display & Calculation rules for metrics
  17. How do I change the name of a scorecard bulletin?

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