The MAME Action Replay Leader Board Help Page

THE LEADER BOARD

The leader board is a summary of who is doing best on the MARP site overall.

In June 1999, a new method of scoring the leaderboard was introduced. Now everyone who has a score for a game is awarded points for that score. At the time of writing, the exact method of calculating the points for each score isn't decided, but basically, the top score for each game gets 100 points, and each of the other scores for the game gets some fraction of 100 points, determined by the ratio of the score to the top score. These points are added up over all the games and summarised in the leader board. The totals are shown in green on the leader board screen.

The original method used to award points was that the top three scorers on each game receive points, with the top scorer getting 10 points, the 2nd place getting 3 points and 3rd place getting 1 point. These scores are added up over all the games and summarised in the leader board.

You can see the current leader board by clicking here.

The table is updated as soon as a new recording is uploaded. It shows the top ten overall leaders as well as your own placing (if, like me, you're not in the top 10) and any 'new entries' - that's players who didn't have any top 3 scores at all 3 days ago.

The columns of the table indicate:

• Current position.

• An arrow, indicating whether the player has moved up or down the table since 3 days ago.

• The player's position 3 days ago, or 'NEW' if they weren't in the table at all then.

• How many days the player has occupied the current position without moving up or down. At the time of writing this, BBH has been in the #1 slot for 51 consequtive days!

• The player's 'name'. This is a link. If you click it, you'll be shown a list of all of the player's recordings which are currently earning points on the leaderboard, together with all the recordings by other players which beat these recordings. This is a useful link for the player themselves to click to see who is beating them, and by how much.

• The player's total score, with numbers in brackets indicating the number of 1st, 2nd and 3rd placings respectively. Each of the three numbers in brackets is a link which will show you a list of the scores by the player which is in the selected position, along with the scores by other players which beat these scores.

• An arrow, indicating whether the player's total score has increased or decreased since 3 days ago.

• The player's total score 3 days ago, with numbers in brackets indicating the number of 1st, 2nd and 3rd placings respectively.