Snipers Rankings is a comprehensive power rankings system that ranks players based on their wins and losses using the TrueSkill formula. Snipers Rankings also includes many powerful features, such as player profiles, match histories, and match statistics.
TrueSkill is an advanced skill ranking system developed at Microsoft Research. The purpose of a ranking system is to both identify and track the skills of gamers in a game (mode) in order to be able to match them into competitive matches.
The biggest difference between TrueSkill and other ranking systems is that in the TrueSkill ranking system, skill is characterized by two numbers. The first number: the average skill of the gamer, and the second number: the degree of uncertainty in the gamer's skill. The ranking system maintains a belief in every gamer’s skill using these two numbers.
If the uncertainty is still high, the ranking system does not yet know exactly the skill of the gamer. In contrast, if the uncertainty is small, the ranking system has a strong belief that the skill of the gamer is close to the average skill.
Snipers Rankings is developed, designed, and maintained by LaZeR. The website was developed with React on the frontend, and GraphQL as the backend data engine. It uses the Next.js framework and takes full advantage of its features for rapid prototyping. The website is adapted from code released by Kenneth.