Jul 13

Arena Roster Strength Bug?

First off, this is a very fun game. Thank you to Rob for creating and maintaining it. I always assumed the strength score was the additive raw value of each selection, divided by eight, plus or minus a few small bonuses for ordering WR1/2 and F7A/B correctly. I have never run the numbers, but this always seemed correct from eyeballing the results. However, I just received a competitive game outcome where I placed 11th even though I had a higher raw score total than everyone in the Top 10. I also got the WR and F7 ordering correct, so that isn't the issue. An image of the Top 10 with a comparison between my card and the #1 card is attached. Running the numbers, Storeytime's total card strength is 726. Divided by 8 is 90.75. However, they got a 90.1, which is lower than the average. But they missed both WR and F7 orderings, so that could account for it if missing an ordering is punished by -0.35? My card's total strength is 730, divided by 8 should be 91.25 but the game assigned my card a score of 87.9. Is this a bug? Or does roster strength weight positions differently? I'm just trying to figure this out, because losing ELO for having the highest total strength card in a match is... not fun.

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