Wordfeud League of Honour

How do you calculate the ranking?

First, the previous season is calculated. In wordfeud, the formula is 5000 - (division no. * 900) + (avg. points per game * 850) + (avg. margin per game * 4). Example of calculation: say you play in division 5, you played 8 matches, won 4 lost 4, hence got 8 points. You got a spread of 4400-4000. Then the value of your season is 5000-(5*900)+(8/8*850)+((4400-4000)/8*4)= 5000-4500+850+200 = 1550. This is the number showing on the players´ page. The rating is the average of this number and your current rating. That means the last season you played counts for 50 % of the rating, the second-to-last season 25 % , then 12,5 % , 6,25 % and so on.

Is it possible to be promoted if you´re number two?

The rule in WLoH is that the winner is promoted, and the last two are relegated. Finishing runner-up in a group is a great achievement, and it yields better ranking and hence a presumptively easier group next season, but it does not lead to promotion. But there are indeed two exceptions:

- The lowest division is not always filled (it´s full when it has twice as many groups as the division above it). In these seasons more than one player per group is promoted from the lowest division. This is defined in the mail that the players receive. Some times the mail will say that 50 % of the runners-up will be promoted, or 66 % of the bronze medalists. The ranking will decide who of these will be promoted.

- If one has finished in second place, one may also theoretically be promoted because there is a function that promotes players if there are many players on the next level that take a break / have resigned from WLoH / have been thrown out. (More precisely: It kicks in if the number of participants falls more than one below the normal number, and the normal number is 10 in divisions 1 and 2, 9 in division 3, and 8 in the other divisions.) The function also uses the ranking, and compares everyone in the same division (including for instance those who finished no. 3, or those relegated from the division above). The goal is to promote the best players regardless of where they played the previous season. This function has hardly ever kicked in; empirically speaking, the chances of being promoted this way is 0.3 % , and up until season 16 it has never happened below division 3. So it´s not an important function of WLoH, but runners-up often seem to focus on this one.

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Los dos últimos jugadores lugar serán relegados. I feel pretty confident that xaqu will top the table at the end of the season.