Yeah, time to tone down the games which is something I didn't want to do because I like playing the ladder games. But all it does is give me a chance to lose my top 10 (which i'm teetering on). Winning does nothing for me now because i'll only go up maybe 10 at a time but a loss drops me down. Kind of sucks that the top 10 has to play the ladder like this. The only time the top 10 changes is if someone gets upset by a rank in the 15-45's and not when the top 10 battles each other.

I wish there was weight on your win/loss % (maybe there is and people some people haven't played as much) and also the amount of wins

Ruthless - It looks to me like you haven't played anyone with a higher rating than you in a while. Seems to me that playing only lower ranked players is risk with little reward.

I'm very fortunate that I'm currently matched with Duke and Impaller. The wins versus you and bostonfred, both high-ranked players, are what got me into the top 10.

I think the problem is that I've faced everyone on the top 10 besides Doushi...only winning 2 of those :/

I think what the system is doing now is letting me go through everyone a second time now but it seemed to snake so the people I played last, i'm playing them first now (for the second time). So maybe after a couple more games i can get 2nd shots against the top 10

I'm playing against a fair number of people in the 40-50 range now :/

I've played the whole top ten, then went back through the toughest of the top ten a second time, then played all the new additions to the top ten as soon as they got there. This is a gauntlet and a half.

I'm currently playing 6, 7, 8, 10 and 23 on the ladder. I'll be happy winning3 out of 5.

My wife just had a baby, and I had a couple games I was losing that I finally surrendered in, so I just dropped ou of the top five. But I'm playing a few games against top players in games where I'm pretty sure I'm way ahead, and the moves are coming slower and slower. That's an unfortunate consequence of these ladder games - it seems like nobody wants to lose their ranking so they slow things way down.

CONGRATS ON BABY! I hope wife and baby are healthy and recovering well. Was that your first?

I'm guilty of that. In my losses to Imp and Ruthless I played my last one or two turns at close to the 3 day mark. I was provisional so it had nothing to do with rank. I just didn't want to face the music.

Ruthless lost 16 out of his first 50 games -- a 68% win percentage. And he's in the top 10. The ladder is fair.

actually 69%, 55 games total with 3 still in play so 36/52

Yes, he's my first. Thanks for asking. Very exciting stuff, and with some nice lulls in between while my wife recovers and my son is napping.

I've been playing five ladder games at a time, but a huge majority of them have been ranked in the top ten at the time we were playing, and the stall factor is such that I've only completed 34 games in about the same amount of time it took ruthless to complete 52. I'm 25-9 in those games, with a couple likely wins in the bank, but while my eighth loss didn't affect my ranking at all, my ninth put me in a tie for seventh.

happy parantage!!

I have been playing 3-2 games at a time, and think just recently went up to 4..

and only have a 21/39
so what.. 53% win rate?

so i am satisfied with a 1650*ish score, lol

Parentage*

I've played 19 and I'm 16-3 for a ranking of 1917, presently 4th on the ladder.

No idea how the 5 I have going now will work out.

C'mon Duke.. you can do better, i got faith in you.. I expect higher then an 84% out of you.. :)

if you win these 5 you'll be a pretty solid B+

Success! I got my match with Doushi! My prayers have been answered. Unfortunately, I think I used up all my praying power getting the match with Doushi, and will probably actually lose it (and others)

Four of my five current opponents are: Doushi (#1), Duke (#3), Impaller (#4), and Waya (#7). Does anyone have a tougher set of ladder opponents right now?

My rank is SO going down!

I hope you don't lose it! The Bag of Dough needs to be taken off his throne. (I demand the pairing gods give me a chance at revenge!)

I, on the other hand, have a really easy set of ladder opponents: Shogun, TeddyFSB, Bostonfred, Troll, and Nuckluck. Piece of cake. Easy. Easy. Tooo Easy.

What is all this throne business you keep talking about!? If I had a throne I think I'd know! So perhaps it was stolen...but if I'm on this throne.. that means... I've been stolen too! Oh my God!! Impaller has kidnapped me! Somebody please save me! I've been taken hostage by the evil Impaller all I can assume because he ran out of cookies and his cookie addiction led him to the Bag of Dough who he then nefariously plotted and schemed to take for his own! Will the Bag of Dough be rescued before he's baked good and done or will some hero arise and save the Bag of Dough and destroy the evil Impaller?

I want some cookies..