I was over there looking for scores and notta but saw this :
New tribe scoring for Fantasy Survivor: China
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Based on the feedback we have recieved from Fantasy Survivor players we have decided to tweak the formulas we use to calculate our tribe standings for Fantasy Survivor. Since there are a fair amount of groups/tribes that regularly play Fantasy Survivor each and every season, we decided its time to reward those loyal Fantasy Survivor players.
Many have expressed concerns on how their tribe’s scores are affected when some members on the tribe inevitably miss a week or two of selections, or more frequently, when some of the tribe members no longer play they game. When we calculated the tribe scores in previous season, we would “reset” the membership on each tribe and calculated the tribe average based on the membership at that moment in time. This allowed teams to boost their rankings by dropping weaker members, and penalized teams who recruited new players to Fantasy Survivor and included them in their tribe.
Effective this season, for every episode of Survivor that a Fantasy Survivor game is held, we will calculate a episode score for each tribe in existence at the time the episode begins to air. The tribe memberships will lock each week at the same time all picks are locked in and the tribe average score will only include the results from all players who are members of the tribe and who actually made picks for that round.
Any players on the tribe that do not register picks will not count against the tribe. However, we still require tribes to have at least 10 players in order to get a full average score, and this minimum will apply on a week to week basis. For example, if a tribe has 12 members, but only 8 make predictions for an episode (i.e. 4 players miss the week) and those 8 players score a combined 850 points, the team average for that episode will be 85.0 (850/10). Had all 12 players make selections and scored 1100 total points, the team average will be 91.6 (1100/12).
The big difference now will come in how the tribe’s season totals are calculated. Once we calculate a score for each tribe for each episode, this episode for the tribe becomes permanent. Regardless of whether a player leaves a tribe, or new members joint the team later, the tribe score achieved in prior episodes will never change. A player will only be able to help (or hurt) a tribes with their prediction performance in weeks they are actually a member of that tribe. As the season progresses, we will rank all tribes based on their cumulative tribe performance by adding up the tribe scored for each episode to date.
We hope that these simple changes to our team scoring algorithm help increase the enjoyment of the game for the more competitive Fantasy Survivor tribes. As always, if you have any questions, comments, or concerns about this or any other aspect of the game, feel free to contact us via this forum or via email (
admin@fantasysurvivor.com).
Thanks again for playing Fantasy Survivor: China
