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Table of Contents

• Bricks Official Ranking (BOR)
  1. Overview
  2. Top 100
  3. MR Leadership History
  4. Tips: How to score better in the rank?
  5. PR and SR -- Implications
  6. Acknowledgment
• Bricks Unofficial Ranking Survey (BURS)

Bricks Official Ranking (BOR)

The background information of how BOR works is now on a separate page!

Top 100 (usually updated when Andreas updates his page; either on Monday or Tuesday)

BOR is ranked by MR, which is the average score that players obtain from PR and SR.

The value of (PR - SR) shows the difference in the magnitude between PR and SR. If it is positive it means players score lower in SR than in PR on average, and vice versa. Since players' SR will consistently grow we expect the value of (PR-SR) will drop consistently. If it drops to some low level we need to readjust the penalty of SR.

The first ranking created on 18 Jan 2001 can be viewed here.

The BOR data file for the current week can be downloaded here (see forum for update announcement).

SR Penalty History:

17/01/01: 0.11% -- according to the BUR results
06/02/01: 0.12% -- B1/2/3 improvements
26/02/01: 0.13% -- B1/2/3 improvements
02/03/01: 0.15% -- good Flip Flop scores
26/03/01: 0.16% -- B1/2/3 improvements
07/05/01: 0.15% -- bad Octagon scores
18/07/01: 0.16% -- B1/2/3 improvements
27/08/01: 0.17% -- B1/2/3 improvements
04/09/01: 0.27% -- extremely good Swordfish results
10/09/01: 0.28% -- B1/2/3 improvements
03/11/01: 0.23% -- back-to-normal Dice results
27/12/01: 0.24% -- B1/2/3 improvements
08/01/02: 0.20% -- B4 introduced with bad player scores
03/03/02: 0.14% -- extremely bad Arena results
09/05/02: 0.15% -- normal Pool results

For more motivation, the Top 6 movements of MR for the current week is shown as follows: 

#: Player:             Start:  Last Week:  This Week:  First Played:
 1 Alan Chan           71.37      73.04       74.77      18th Jun 1999
 2 Wilson Kwok         23.22      47.87       48.87      Jul 1999
 3 Nolan Pflug         -----      50.85       48.69      Mar 2001
 4 Kurt Neuenschwander 55.11      50.35       47.77      Mar 2000
 5 Marco Roger Graf    51.40      43.27       40.85      Mar 2000
 6 Fabrice Duprat      59.29      41.97       38.28      Apr 2000

• I'll increase the value of "Penalty Rate per 0.01%" in SR when the average (PR-SR) of the Top 100 is "too negative", in order to make PR and SR more balanced.

MR Leadership History

Green: New High; Bold: New Leader.

Date:      Player:          Country:     PR:    SR:    MR:   # of weeks:
18/01/01   Alan Chan        Hong Kong   72.59  70.16  71.37  Alan    1
29/01/01   Alan Chan        Hong Kong   72.59  70.04  71.31  Alan    3
07/02/01   Alan Chan        Hong Kong   72.59  68.09  70.34  Alan    4
11/02/01   Alan Chan        Hong Kong   72.59  68.01  70.30  Alan    5
20/02/01   Alan Chan        Hong Kong   70.79  67.82  69.30  Alan    6
26/02/01   Alan Chan        Hong Kong   69.13  65.97  67.55  Alan    7
02/03/01   Fabrice Duprat   France      60.72  64.57  62.64  Fabrice 1
07/03/01   Marco Roger Graf Switzerland 69.31  65.13  67.22  Marco   1
19/03/01   Marco Roger Graf Switzerland 67.84  65.09  66.46  Marco   3
26/03/01   Marco Roger Graf Switzerland 69.31  63.91  66.61  Marco   4
02/04/01   Marco Roger Graf Switzerland 67.55  63.91  65.73  Marco   5
12/04/01   Alan Chan        Hong Kong   70.72  63.60  67.16  Alan    8
17/04/01   Alan Chan        Hong Kong   70.72  64.06  67.39  Alan    9
23/04/01   Alan Chan        Hong Kong   70.72  64.36  67.54  Alan   10
07/05/01   Marco Roger Graf Switzerland 73.65  70.96  72.31  Marco   6
20/05/01   Marco Roger Graf Switzerland 73.65  71.33  72.49  Marco   8
03/06/01   Marco Roger Graf Switzerland 72.00  71.73  71.87  Marco  10
15/06/01   Marco Roger Graf Switzerland 72.00  71.72  71.86  Marco  12
18/07/01   Marco Roger Graf Switzerland 70.18  68.92  69.55  Marco  17
29/07/01   Marco Roger Graf Switzerland 70.18  68.99  69.59  Marco  19
13/08/01   Marco Roger Graf Switzerland 70.18  68.95  69.57  Marco  21
27/08/01   Marco Roger Graf Switzerland 70.18  67.49  68.84  Marco  23
04/09/01   Alan Chan        Hong Kong   74.86  65.77  70.31  Alan   12
10/09/01   Alan Chan        Hong Kong   79.14  68.12  73.63  Alan   13
02/10/01   Alan Chan        Hong Kong   76.86  68.00  72.43  Alan   16
22/10/01   Alan Chan        Hong Kong   74.86  68.00  71.43  Alan   19
03/11/01   Alan Chan        Hong Kong   79.34  74.44  76.89  Alan   21
26/11/01   Alan Chan        Hong Kong   77.54  74.44  75.99  Alan   24
29/12/01   Alan Chan        Hong Kong   77.54  73.52  75.53  Alan   29
08/01/02   Alan Chan        Hong Kong   82.82  77.78  80.30  Alan   31
14/01/02   Alan Chan        Hong Kong   82.82  77.28  80.05  Alan   32
03/03/02   Alan Chan        Hong Kong   77.41  68.68  73.04  Alan   39
09/05/02   Alan Chan        Hong Kong   77.87  71.66  74.77  Alan   49

Tips: How to score better in the rank?

If you have some tips please tell me and I'll put them on the list -- and you will be credited!

• Play all games -- Bricks I, II, III, IV and all competitions.
• Send in a score in Bricks II or III or IV (if you haven't).
• Try your best in the current competition!!!!!!
• Don't get too serious into Custom Bricks, Bricks Jr., Bricks V, VI ... Competition -- they all don't count!!

Feel free to ask me for advise on what strategy to use for a better score. In addition I am also happy to give you some "hypothetical scores", like answering: "What would be my score if I had 50 more points in Bricks I?", "I am in a team of 2 with a score of 42000 in Bricks IV, what score is needed for an individual to have the same SR score as mine?" ...

PR and SR -- Implications

It is quite clear that the average scores in SR will increase over time. This is due to the improvement on scores made by players; on the other hand the average scores in PR will remain stable (but individually players' scores might decline slowly -- let's see). As a result the constant "Decay Rate per 0.01%" in SR needs to be increased regularly (e.g., quarterly). The team penalty will remain unchanged.

Acknowledgment

Special thanks to the following friends from Bricks:

• Andreas Rottler -- who provides such a great game with heaps of interesting statistics;
• Javier Ospina, Joe Tingler -- who initialized the idea of having a generic Bricks Ranking;
• Fabrice Duprat and Erick Storm -- who spent time on some variations on the Bricks Ranking (old Fun Unofficial Ranking and Andreas' Competition Ranking);
• Kurt Neuenschwander -- who inspired me to have the initial idea of SR;
• Erick Storm -- who helped me with VB and Excel programming;
• Andreas Rottler (again), Brian Thompson, Erick Storm (again), Fabrice Duprat (again), James Gdowik, Joe Tingler (again), Kurt Neuenschwander, Marco Roger Graf, Matt Groff, Ricardo Gruda, Ruben Spaans and Wilson Kwok for completing the BURS.
• And all other players who involved in discussing / providing ideas on the Bricks Forum.

Bricks Unofficial Ranking Survey (BURS)

• Click here to download the Full Version of BURS.
• Click here to download the Text Version of BURS.
• Click here to view the online documentation of the BOR data sheet (last updated 9^th December, 2000).

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