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Marked
msg:4074924 | 2:11 pm on Feb 5, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Hi all,
I am writing a stats component which contains rankings from 1 to 100.
Each stat module has a ranking. What I am trying to do is give many points for higher rankings(like 1 and 2) and few points for low rankings(such as 100).
At the moment my script has something silly like this:
if($rank == 1){
$points = +=10
}elseif($rank ==2){
$points = +=9
}
And so on. So what I'm looking for is some kind of math formula which when you insert a number such as 1 or 2, the result is high. And if you insert a number such as 100, 99 etc. the result comes out a low number. And if there are some really smart people out there, the results get exponentially lower(for example, ranking 1 gives 10 points, ranking 100 gives 0.0001 points). But I am very unsure how to write such a formula... Can someone offer me some advice on this?
Thanks in advance,
Mark.
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IanKelley
msg:4075603 | 12:59 am on Feb 7, 2010 (gmt 0) |
A simple way to do it...
$points[$rank] = 100000-pow($rank,3);
Making...
1 = 99999
2 = 99992
...
5 = 99875
...
9 = 99271
...
25 = 84375
...
45 = 8875
The above example goes into negative points after rank 47, however if you are comparing items based on relative point difference that won't be a problem.
You can play with the initial number (100000) if you need to keep numbers in the positive at higher ranks. A value of one million will cause rank 100 to be worth 0 points.
Increase or decrease the number of times you multiply $rank (second attribute of the pow function) to alter how much change happens between ranks.
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msg:4075623 | 1:58 am on Feb 7, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Thank you for your reply,
I quite like this idea, I'm going to try it out and see what results I get. I did come up with a much simpler way where the rank was divided by its square: ($counter / ($counter * ($counter / 2)) * 10).
Thanks again.
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