(An attempt at) The top 40 TPA players from leaderboard scores

[invitro]

Inspired by the "where do you rank" thread, I have attempted to rank all TPA players, or those that show up on the website's leaderboard, anyway. I gave 100 points to a player for having the #1 score on a table, 99 points for the #2 score, and on down to 1 point for the #100 score. Scores lower than #100 got no points. I added up the points and here is the result:

RANK	USERNAME	POINTS	BEST TABLES
1	vikingerik	3282	#1 on MB, #1 on Taxi, #1 on TZ, #1 on AFM
2	FALCO12-QUEBEC	2094	#1 on EatPM, #2 on RBioN, #4 on Centaur, #5 on Fl2000
3	maestroreese	2034	#3 on DrDude, #8 on SpSh, #12 on Taxi, #14 on Firep
4	Space Tractor	1986	#2 on FT, #3 on SpSh, #3 on PinBot, #7 on MM
5	-SVB-	1975	#1 on Centaur, #1 on BRose, #2 on BK, #2 on ElDor
6	Tarek Oberdieck	1853	#1 on BH, #1 on FH, #1 on Genie, #1 on DrDude
7	TOUGE_KILLER	1831	#2 on DrDude, #2 on Firep, #3 on WWind, #5 on SpSh
8	Sir_Moovenstein	1741	#1 on CV, #3 on Fl2000, #4 on MB, #4 on Firep
9	Crusty Booger	1729	#3 on Co1812, #5 on TeedOff, #6 on SpSh, #6 on Victory
10	dylan_h	1700	#4 on DrDude, #5 on Co1812, #7 on TeedOff, #7 on BRose
11	pinballchris	1698	#10 on NGG, #10 on CC, #11 on HD3E, #15 on Co1812
12	atoppachar	1574	#1 on FT, #3 on BRose, #3 on BK2K, #4 on Taxi
13	TRLBrony	1427	#2 on Co1812, #8 on Fl2000, #8 on CBW, #10 on BRose
14	geohoo	1389	#5 on CC, #5 on WWind, #9 on FT, #16 on TeedOff
15	AntonR	1245	#2 on BK2K, #7 on DrDude, #8 on BH, #11 on Co1812
16	Nightmac21	1150	#10 on TeedOff, #18 on CV, #18 on CBW, #19 on HD3E
17	pinballwiz45b	1118	#6 on Co1812, #6 on FT, #7 on BK2K, #8 on BRose
18	HUFMUF	1039	#1 on HD3E, #1 on TeedOff, #1 on CBW, #9 on SS
19	PieCES	1025	#10 on DrDude, #10 on Firep, #12 on BH, #26 on CV
20	ChristofferB	1018	#8 on GoinNuts, #19 on Genie, #19 on CBW, #20 on TeedOff
21	Howling_Goro	1009	#2 on STTNG, #2 on Centaur, #2 on T2, #3 on BoP
22	Tripple I	999	#13 on CC, #13 on WWind, #13 on BRose, #19 on Centaur
23	CheesyBeefy88	994	#7 on BigShot, #12 on SpSh, #14 on CP, #17 on GoinNuts
24	DeeEff	993	#12 on WWind, #13 on Centaur, #15 on FH, #17 on CC
25	invitro	967	#9 on BRose, #10 on FT, #12 on Fl2000, #14 on SpSh
26	djchrille	950	#4 on T2, #4 on Victory, #8 on HD3E, #9 on CBW
27	gooche77	912	#8 on Genie, #12 on FT, #17 on ElDor, #21 on Firep
28	ostrich2	874	#2 on CC, #6 on MB, #6 on HD3E, #7 on NGG
29	benika7	831	#3 on CV, #5 on MB, #7 on TZ, #7 on CC
30	ParallaxScroll	815	#11 on MM, #16 on CV, #17 on BigShot, #19 on Gorgar
31	MT	805	#12 on TeedOff, #18 on Firep, #19 on WWater, #24 on FH
32	slam23	798	#10 on ElDor, #16 on FT, #22 on Victory, #23 on MM
33	LordEngi	783	#7 on CBW, #16 on HH, #18 on GoinNuts, #23 on Firep
34	www.digitalpinballfans.com	782	#1 on STTNG, #2 on AFM, #5 on CP, #6 on BH
35	Just this guy	777	#13 on SS, #14 on AFM, #14 on BRose, #27 on Taxi
36	Roy Wils	759	#10 on FH, #11 on CV, #16 on HD3E, #17 on AFM
37	Nemesis041	738	#10 on WWater, #16 on BRose, #19 on FT, #24 on SS
38	tuomas	730	#3 on AFM, #17 on SpSh, #22 on Firep, #22 on HH
39	moldygoat	713	#4 on CP, #8 on FT, #10 on BoP, #11 on WWater
40	Toolinit	682	#8 on TeedOff, #8 on Victory, #12 on Genie, #19 on BK2K

In the few cases where I was sure a score was the result of a hack, I ignored all scores for that username. There are probably scores/usernames here that are hacks that I could not identify as such. There are a bunch of RBioN scores a hair over 10B that I ignored because they look like glitches to me. I probably misspelled some usernames or missed some scores, hopefully not too many.

 

[vikingerik]

I guess I approve of this ranking system. Although I'm on top from quantity as much as quality, I've taken the time on every single table to push into a decent leaderboard spot, except season 3 and MM. Some of the unpopular ones like Victory and El Dorado I had my #1 spot in just one day of playing.

Yeah the Ripley's leaderboard is total garbage. All those just-over-10B or 20B scores must have been registered by fooling or hacking TPA's rollover detection into giving credit for the ten-billions digit.

Nice work! How'd you do it, just scrape the output from pinballarcade's pages and do some spreadsheet crunching?

 

[Dylan_h]

Wow that's a bit of work. Nice to see I still have some top ten spots as I kind of ignore the leaderboards and focus on the tournaments

 

[invitro]

I'd like to say I scraped it, but the webpage leaderboards appear to be inside a flash thingie that I cannot figure out how to unravel. I would very much like to know a way of extracting the data from the webpage. I asked here awhile back and I don't think anyone knew/cared, and time passed and I wanted to do this badly enough that I just gave in and typed the usernames in a spreadsheet. If I do this again I think I can copy/paste a page of 10 scores in one swipe and that might speed up the process.

The results come from a very little program that operates on the spreadsheet.

 

[JPelter]

Interesting. This must have taken a while to do up. Thanks invitro.

 

[night]

If you all want to know where I am on that list, my name is USERNAME.

 

[Kolchak357]

I'd like to say I scraped it, but the webpage leaderboards appear to be inside a flash thingie that I cannot figure out how to unravel. I would very much like to know a way of extracting the data from the webpage. I asked here awhile back and I don't think anyone knew/cared, and time passed and I wanted to do this badly enough that I just gave in and typed the usernames in a spreadsheet. If I do this again I think I can copy/paste a page of 10 scores in one swipe and that might speed up the process.

The results come from a very little program that operates on the spreadsheet.

Thanks for taking the time to get that together. Good to see it all in one place like that.

 

[Pinballwiz45b]

Well, that makes sense. #17 at 17 years old. Pretty decent, I'd say

 

[PHDrawde]

Hey if I'm understanding your system right I should be on your full list with 20 "big points" for having #81 on Firepower. What place does that put me in?

 

[invitro]

#1654.

 

[vpalmer]

it's pointless until here will be differentiation between platforms: most top scores are from mobiles and tablets with simplyfied physics.

 

[invitro]

"most top scores are from mobiles and tablets with simplyfied physics."

Is there any evidence to suggest this is true?

 

[vikingerik]

Counter-evidence here, I play only on the PC.

 

[Pinballwiz45b]

Counter-evidence here, I play only on the PC.

Same here.

 

[xAzatothx]

"most top scores are from mobiles and tablets with simplyfied physics."

Is there any evidence to suggest this is true?

all devices play a little different yes (some are easier than others), but I don't believe "mobiles and tablets have simplified physics".

 

[xAzatothx]

on PC, I find I get different results depending on which table I navigate to the leaderboards from. I'm sure Mike can fix this with a bit of debugging.

 

[PHDrawde]

#1654.

Woo hoo, I made the list. Even if it's at the bottom I'm happy I'm on there at all

 

[andrewduhan]

I scrape the top 2000 for every table every few weeks or so.
I built some SVG graphs to display the results, but I haven't put them up on a server anywhere.

Here's an example, showing just how broken the top scores are for RBION:

 

[gooche77]

Awesome stuff! I feel kinda famous now rockin #27.

 

[Sean DonCarlos]

For those interested in further statistical exploration of pinball scoring from a slightly different perspective: Why You Don't Achieve At Least Half Your High Score At Least Half the Time

Also, RBION is a really bad table to use as an example, as there was a bug early on in its life that added 10B (and in a few cases 20B) to the actual scores. That's why you have that huge concentration of scores at 10B interrupting what would otherwise be a nice exponential curve.