Star1, WN7 and WN8. How to read your stats at a glance.
Aug 4, 2015 9:44:45 GMT 8
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Post by leongkitmeng on Aug 4, 2015 9:44:45 GMT 8
There are two fundamental parts to a player's stats.
a) How skilled is the player as a person
b) How skilled is the player with his chosen tank/s
Ignoring the outliers and stat padding to talk purely about the fundamentals of the rating systems, for game play, especially for the purposes of platooning or clan wars, someone looking at your stats to decide whether you will be a good partner to play with, will need to know b) How skilled is the player with his chosen tank/s. For this, WN7 is the best rating as what it does in a nutshell, is to take your overall stats, count overall damage, medals etc. And calculate a score. This gives a snap shot of how well this player does in the game, using the tanks in his garage. Clans would look at this to determine just how useful you will be in battle. The higher you rate on WN7, the more likely you will be an immediate asset in a clan war in your current tanks.
However, if you wanted to know how skilled a player is taken out of his tank, and accessed purely on his skill (without the characteristics) of his tanks, that's where you need a) How skilled is the player as a person. For this, you go to the WN8 rating. This rating measures you up against the median of players in any given tank. What this means is that, even if you scored very highly on WN7 in say, the IS-3, you may still score low on WN8. This means that the median for the IS-3 is higher than your use of the tank, ie. you are only good because of your tank, and not because of your personal skill and you are actually below what the median player can acheive in that tank. Conversely, if you achieve high WN8 scores, what it means is that regardless of tank, you are highly skilled. So, in an assessment for the longer term prospects of a player, a clan for example, would want to see the WN8 because it means, moving forward in time, as the player starts playing new tanks, either moving up the tiers or switching tech lines, he will still do well in his new tanks and therefore remain a consistently good player.
So now, given the difference between the WN7 and WN8, how would you know where you stand? If one is high but the other is low, how and what is to account for the difference and how would you improve yourself? That's where the Star1 rating comes in. The Star1 is very similar to the WN8 rating but with very different weightages and penalties. The overall Star1 rating is not very useful as a measure but looking further at how the rating calculates your score gives you a breakdown on how you fare compared to medians for you tanks and against other players. The WN8 rating can now be dissected to know why you score high or low on a given tank. Very simplistically, in the example above with the IS-3, you will be able to see that the median WR for example, is a very high 61%. If you had been achieving 60% WR with the. IS-3 and thought you were doing very well, in actuality, you are still a below median player on this tank. This is only comparable to a Tiger I player achieving just under 49% WR skill-wise! In terms of skills, you need more practice on your IS-3.
So, in conclusion, in the short term, to know how well a player will do in battle right here, right now, WN7 will give you a very good indication of expected performance. In the longer term, as the clan matures and progresses, the WN8 rating will tell just which players will continue to give consistently good performances, regardless of the tank they use. The Star1 rating system's website will show you exactly where and how things needs to be improved to achieve both a high WN7 and high WN8 which should be the aim of every player in the clan.
a) How skilled is the player as a person
b) How skilled is the player with his chosen tank/s
Ignoring the outliers and stat padding to talk purely about the fundamentals of the rating systems, for game play, especially for the purposes of platooning or clan wars, someone looking at your stats to decide whether you will be a good partner to play with, will need to know b) How skilled is the player with his chosen tank/s. For this, WN7 is the best rating as what it does in a nutshell, is to take your overall stats, count overall damage, medals etc. And calculate a score. This gives a snap shot of how well this player does in the game, using the tanks in his garage. Clans would look at this to determine just how useful you will be in battle. The higher you rate on WN7, the more likely you will be an immediate asset in a clan war in your current tanks.
However, if you wanted to know how skilled a player is taken out of his tank, and accessed purely on his skill (without the characteristics) of his tanks, that's where you need a) How skilled is the player as a person. For this, you go to the WN8 rating. This rating measures you up against the median of players in any given tank. What this means is that, even if you scored very highly on WN7 in say, the IS-3, you may still score low on WN8. This means that the median for the IS-3 is higher than your use of the tank, ie. you are only good because of your tank, and not because of your personal skill and you are actually below what the median player can acheive in that tank. Conversely, if you achieve high WN8 scores, what it means is that regardless of tank, you are highly skilled. So, in an assessment for the longer term prospects of a player, a clan for example, would want to see the WN8 because it means, moving forward in time, as the player starts playing new tanks, either moving up the tiers or switching tech lines, he will still do well in his new tanks and therefore remain a consistently good player.
So now, given the difference between the WN7 and WN8, how would you know where you stand? If one is high but the other is low, how and what is to account for the difference and how would you improve yourself? That's where the Star1 rating comes in. The Star1 is very similar to the WN8 rating but with very different weightages and penalties. The overall Star1 rating is not very useful as a measure but looking further at how the rating calculates your score gives you a breakdown on how you fare compared to medians for you tanks and against other players. The WN8 rating can now be dissected to know why you score high or low on a given tank. Very simplistically, in the example above with the IS-3, you will be able to see that the median WR for example, is a very high 61%. If you had been achieving 60% WR with the. IS-3 and thought you were doing very well, in actuality, you are still a below median player on this tank. This is only comparable to a Tiger I player achieving just under 49% WR skill-wise! In terms of skills, you need more practice on your IS-3.
So, in conclusion, in the short term, to know how well a player will do in battle right here, right now, WN7 will give you a very good indication of expected performance. In the longer term, as the clan matures and progresses, the WN8 rating will tell just which players will continue to give consistently good performances, regardless of the tank they use. The Star1 rating system's website will show you exactly where and how things needs to be improved to achieve both a high WN7 and high WN8 which should be the aim of every player in the clan.
