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Question regarding BG wins and losses

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 6:27 am
by jc1519
I can obviously see that you are not tracking every single game. How is your program selecting which games to report on? Is it totally random? If I converted your BG wins and loses into a percentage statistic what would be the likely sampling error? +/- 5%?

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 8:22 am
by Skyfire
It tracks the games that come to use through the use of the Killing Fields UI mod.

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:01 am
by jc1519
So for a game to be recorded someone in the game must be using that mod?

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:16 am
by Rollie
Correct. Not only use the mod, but be sure to upload as well.

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:54 am
by jc1519
So, in theory the stats could be quite currupt because someone could choose to only upload winning games?

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:57 am
by Rollie
Well, they would have to edit their data file and know how to edit it, but yes, in theory if someone wanted to go through the trouble, they could tamper with the results.

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 10:19 am
by jc1519
Thank you Rollie for you timely responces.