How the Leaderboards Work

The 1.0.2 Update brought with it a new leaderboard called Global Weekly which is based on a different ranking system than the older leaderboards (Global, Regional, G+ Friends, Live Event). I thought it would be a good time to explain how these things work.

Feedback and ideas are always welcome - Hero Forge is very much under active development and we want to nurture fun and competitive PvP!

The Older Leaderboards

The goal of the older leaderboards was to show the players who have won the most battles, with an emphasis on recent PvP. 

The winner of a PvP match is awarded a base score change of 1000 points, and the loser gets zero points.  Then up to 5000 bonus points will be given to the winner based on the difference between the global ranks - with the end result that winning against a much higher ranked player will give you up to 6000 points, and likewise losing against a much lower ranked player will lose you up to 5000 points.

The winner of a PvE match is always given 300 points.

In addition, every night the server will erase up to 10,000 points from days which are older than 2 weeks from each player.

The Global Weekly Leaderboard

The goal of the newest leaderboard is to provide an Elo-based ranking where skilled players can fight for position over a relatively short period of time.

Basically the difference between the older system and Elo is that Elo is designed to converge on a ranking without much 'inflation' of scores - so it doesn't matter as much how many matches are played in total.  In effect the winner of a match 'steals' points from the loser.

As the name implies - the weekly leaderboard will be reset once a week - so if you aren't doing so well now - there's always next week =)

Elo is the system used by chess and many other ranked games.  For those who like math - we use the normal Elo algorithm, with a K-factor of 131, and a starting value of 1500.