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Which of the following options should the DL go with for rankings?

Do another ranking period next season
6 (35.3%)
Return ranking periods to every two seasons
7 (41.2%)
Keep things as they are (ranking periods every three seasons)
4 (23.5%)
Other (please post with an explanation)
0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 17

Voting closed: February 05, 2011, 04:42:29 AM

Author Topic: Speeding up rankings?  (Read 2390 times)

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Speeding up rankings?
« on: January 29, 2011, 04:42:29 AM »
Okay. It's come up a couple times between various forum topics and in chat, but it's pretty clear that some people feel that, after the long freeze we had, the DL could stand to rank more stuff. As it stands, in the current ranking period, no fewer than 6 ideas were floated that appeared to gain at least some traction (3+ votes in the ranking topic). We'll only be ranking two of them at most, and at the time I make this topic there's certainly a real possibility that this two will only be one.

Since there's a belief that ranking more things may help keep the DL from getting stale (which is valid), there's talk that simply ranking 1-2 games, waiting another ~5 months, then ranking another 1-2 more, isn't enough. It's been suggested to speed up the next ranking period. Two suggestions are to have rankings again next season, or to permanently change rankings back to once every two seasons, instead of once every three. If you think all of this is too much and the DL's current ranking policy is fine and/or we really shouldn't be ranking more things since none of the ideas are slamdunks, feel free to vote for the option to keep things as they are: ranking every three seasons. The freeze is over and we are on track to continue doing this unless this topic indicates we should do a different direction.

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Re: Speeding up rankings?
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2011, 04:54:28 AM »
I don't think doing another ranking next season is a good idea.  Maybe changing it to one every two seasons is okay, but not sure.  Do note that seasons are longer now too, so three seasons is longer than it used to be (but two seasons is still shorter than the old three seasons).  Though I guess if people are willing to vote against stuff for not being ready and not taking a fail as "never can be ranked ever" there's no harm in changing it to two easons anyway.

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Re: Speeding up rankings?
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2011, 05:53:47 PM »
I voted 1, but 2 works. Either way.
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Re: Speeding up rankings?
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2011, 06:19:15 PM »
 Going with option 2
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Re: Speeding up rankings?
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2011, 08:02:06 PM »
I voted 1, but 2 works. Either way.

Not sure I'd want to make this a new standard, but after a long period of them being missed, we should speed up the next ranking period.

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Re: Speeding up rankings?
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2011, 08:06:48 PM »
Yeah, doing another one quickly then setting in makes sense to me. Mostly due to the long downtime (Way longer than even we expected due to some timing).
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Re: Speeding up rankings?
« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2011, 01:34:20 AM »
Option 2.

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Re: Speeding up rankings?
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2011, 05:15:04 AM »
I voted 1, but 2 works. Either way.

Not sure I'd want to make this a new standard, but after a long period of them being missed, we should speed up the next ranking period.

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Re: Speeding up rankings?
« Reply #8 on: February 04, 2011, 11:43:04 AM »
Voted for 1, although I would actually like to do 1+2 - rank next season, then go to every other season.  I'd like to KEEP it every other season, especially since we lengthened seasons.  We can always changed it back if needed.

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Re: Speeding up rankings?
« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2011, 09:46:01 PM »
Late and well after I actually voted, but chiming in with reducing the duration again.  The longer seasons really brings the to the forefront here.  We lengthened the ranking gap back well after Shadow Hearts 3 and the like had come out and we had come off a dearth of failed experiments in ranking.  We had run out of much more for ranking than fodder.  We are no longer in that situation.
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