SC2 Ranks (site)

When you search for a player name it'd be nice to see their rank within the region / league you searched for.

Eg: Search for LiquidTLO in EU Diamond and it should have a Rank column after Region that should say 11.

EDIT: By the way, great site! Love it...

Last edit: 2010-08-06 09:19:14

grieverEU August 06 2010 09:05. Posts 84

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Hey, great job dude! I like this one most of all the ranking pages. Great design.

One question: Why does it list only like half a million players, I thought SC2 sold already more than a million? And everyone has to register online?

grobo Sweden. August 06 2010 09:06. Posts 6010

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Fantastic site imo, will be using this a lot.

We make signature, then defense it.

Genome852 United States. August 06 2010 09:16. Posts 790

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On August 06 2010 08:58 Frack wrote:
Theres some eu guys in plat with 100% win rate D:

EU
ZergStabGuy
Points : 1,208
Wins: 56
Loss: 0
100.00%
Division Gateway Rho (#1)

I think I read elsewhere that this person was using disconnect hack.

grieverEU August 06 2010 09:19. Posts 84

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yeah he probably is. checked some games today from him and all lasted less then a minute. plus there was a dischacker in wc3 called stabguy as well.

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Dionyseus United States. August 06 2010 09:29. Posts 2062

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On August 06 2010 09:05 grieverEU wrote:
Hey, great job dude! I like this one most of all the ranking pages. Great design.

One question: Why does it list only like half a million players, I thought SC2 sold already more than a million? And everyone has to register online?

Not everyone ladders. Many would consider the singleplayer alone to be well worth the purchase.

9/5/10 P acct: NA D 10,683 651pts 69w56L http://sc2ranks.com/char/us/290365/LetoAtreides T acct: NA D 16,137 553pts 70w67L http://sc2ranks.com/char/us/1560008/Khrone Z: NA G 16,058 465pts 28w26L http://www.sc2ranks.com/us/1997354/Omnius

Shadowed August 06 2010 09:34. Posts 603

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Two parts, one is just time, there's a finite limit to how fast I can pull data and process it. A lot of it is also there's no 'true' way of finding random characters, right now I cascade spider, which finds a lot of players but it's not perfect. Once I add support for random leagues it will probably jump up a bit more.

As Dionyseus said, not everyone does leagues.

Still adding new characters pretty quickly thought, in 3 hours (since posting this topic) 205 new divisions have been found, and 45,000 characters. Should hit a million by Monday.

On August 06 2010 08:58 Frack wrote:
Theres some eu guys in plat with 100% win rate D:

EU
ZergStabGuy
Points : 1,208
Wins: 56
Loss: 0
100.00%
Division Gateway Rho (#1)

Cheating I would imagine? I think there was a few other 100% in other divisions too.

On August 06 2010 08:59 Keitzer wrote:

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wow, you're RIGHT! that is kinda scary (to some maybe)

As I said, this isn't secret information, it is available through your battle.net profile, even if I remove it it just means someone has to click the battle.net link to find it.

On August 06 2010 09:00 andyrichdale wrote:
When you search for a player name it'd be nice to see their rank within the region / league you searched for.

Eg: Search for LiquidTLO in EU Diamond and it should have a Rank column after Region that should say 11.

Good idea on seeing region/league rank, I'll see about adding that.

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Regent United Kingdom. August 06 2010 09:37. Posts 51

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Great idea and well executed in my opinion. Once everything starts evening out more it will be a really useful resource.

Quick (possibly noob) question though.....

I played in the beta a little but my system needs an update so badly that since release, I've just been buried in the single player for the time being. I searched for my name on your site to see if anyone else was also using it. I thought I had found some dude in Russia using the same name but from following the link to the battlenet profile, it turns out that it's actually me.

I thought this very bizarre as I haven't yet completed placement, and I'm not from Russia. On further examination, I think that it's actually showing some old data from the beta, when I had a stalker for my image, and had 50 games played. What's really interesting is that once I've followed the link and I'm there on my battlenet profile, I can click my image and it updates to 0 games played, no placements etc., which is accurate.

- Is this just a glitch that exists because I haven't placed yet?
- What gives your database the impression I'm from Russia? ;-)
- Will placement fix this?
- Could this beta information be 'tainting' the stats?
- (other questions)

Thanks

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Sight United States. August 06 2010 09:40. Posts 148

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Oh yeah I'm in the top 5,000 in North America....

Shadowed August 06 2010 09:41. Posts 603

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On August 06 2010 09:37 Regent wrote:
Great idea and well executed in my opinion. Once everything starts evening out more it will be a really useful resource.

Quick (possibly noob) question though.....

I played in the beta a little but my system needs an update so badly that since release, I've just been buried in the single player for the time being. I searched for my name on your site to see if anyone else was also using it. I thought I had found some dude in Russia using the same name but from following the link to the battlenet profile, it turns out that it's actually me.

I thought this very bizarre as I haven't yet completed placement, and I'm not from Russia. On further examination, I think that it's actually showing some old data from the beta, when I had a stalker for my image, and had 50 games played. What's really interesting is that once I've followed the link and I'm there on my battlenet profile, I can click my image and it updates to 0 games played, no placements etc., which is accurate.

- Is this just a glitch that exists because I haven't placed yet?
- What gives your database the impression I'm from Russia? ;-)
- Will placement fix this?
- Could this beta information be 'tainting' the stats?
- (other questions)

Thanks

You can still show up even if you haven't played any games if someone else entered your name for whatever reason. I'm not sure why it's listing you as from Russia thought.

Can you give me a profile (battle.net or sc2ranks either one) link and I'll check it out. This didn't exist during beta thought, so there's no tainted data from that. I'm surprised you're showing up at all.

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Qzy Denmark. August 06 2010 09:43. Posts 1121

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Love the site, but you should probably remove the number-tags on the nick names. Some people don't like to be "looked up"

.

Ie... IdrA might get pissed to see 100 kids go in there, get his number, and contact him.

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Regent United Kingdom. August 06 2010 09:50. Posts 51

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On August 06 2010 09:41 Shadowed wrote:

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(see pm)

I'm very surprised to be showing up, especially showing old information. I can see no reason why someone would add me. I'm quite old and don't know anyone personally that plays SC2. It is simply there dude, and is searchable.

I'm showing in your Russian rankings with a win rate and everything, this must surely affect stats, even if there's only a small number of these glitches???

Thanks for your time.

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Saviorr Sweden. August 06 2010 09:54. Posts 20

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Seems that people have already taken upp the 100% wins from StabGuy.
But my question is why doesn't he get into diamond?

When/how do you get into diamond? (currently 2nd and 5th in 1on1/2on2 both in platinum)

Skvid Lithuania. August 06 2010 10:02. Posts 751

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Where do you fetch all that data from? I doubt its done by user input so... does blizz even allows it? O.o

Anyways great site, worthy of being dragged into my browsers quick-access... thingie.
Keep it running

ejac United States. August 06 2010 10:21. Posts 1102

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lol, im #1 bronze (I've been playing exclusively diamond level players like 40 out of my 50 games). It's kind of annoying the thing hasn't moved me up yet though, expected it would have after like 10 games like it would've during beta.

ps, awesome site, thanks man.

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Rashia Sweden. August 06 2010 10:42. Posts 68

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Yay! ranked #2300 in EU! Great site, if it works!

Shadowed August 06 2010 11:33. Posts 603

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On August 06 2010 10:02 Skvid wrote:
Where do you fetch all that data from? I doubt its done by user input so... does blizz even allows it? O.o

Anyways great site, worthy of being dragged into my browsers quick-access... thingie.
Keep it running

It's pulled from the armory through cascade spidering, Blizzard 'allows' it in that they could probably shut it down if they really wanted, but they won't. Armory sites have been around for years through the WoW Armory and they haven't shut any of those time.

Cascade spidering is this:

You take a profile, say http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/440365/1/MacabreDerek/ladder/leagues and you record everyone in that players division, then you spider each of those 99 players profiles and you repeat. Repeat that for every character who manually enters their name and you can grow a pretty large database off very little information.

On August 06 2010 10:21 ejac wrote:
lol, im #1 bronze (I've been playing exclusively diamond level players like 40 out of my 50 games). It's kind of annoying the thing hasn't moved me up yet though, expected it would have after like 10 games like it would've during beta.

ps, awesome site, thanks man.

Thanks!

On August 06 2010 09:54 Saviorr wrote:
Seems that people have already taken upp the 100% wins from StabGuy.
But my question is why doesn't he get into diamond?

When/how do you get into diamond? (currently 2nd and 5th in 1on1/2on2 both in platinum)

Someone mentioned in another topic you have to lose 6 (or was it 7?) games before it promotes you.

On August 06 2010 10:42 Rashia wrote:
Yay! ranked #2300 in EU! Great site, if it works!

Depends what you mean by works?

At worst it would be 100-200 places off at #2,300, but I doubt it.

holy_war United States. August 06 2010 11:40. Posts 3477

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Great site! Very easy to use and updates constantly

bnanaPEEL Canada. August 06 2010 13:42. Posts 115

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I really love this website - it gives me a true sense of where I stand compared to everybody else (and not just 99 other people, most of which are complete noobs).

unintentionally intoxicated

Chill Canada. August 06 2010 14:11. Posts 25251

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On August 06 2010 06:28 FC.Strike wrote:

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Damnit chill, there was this guy in my division with the name chill and I was like, "Cool I'm gonna go say hi"

And then he literally starts raging at me, asking me who this TL chill guy is and why everybody keeps sending him messages.

Pick a less common name plzthx

Hahaha

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=275302&currentpage=225#4490