UltRank | Stuart98

Algorithm creator and other stats stuff at @UltRankSSB, moderator of @r_smashbros
Previously: Creator of ΩRank, fact-checker and TTS maintainer for the PGR.

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@KryZenDesigner @jinxeatsdust Why do you insist on robbing us of ProtoBanham 2nd

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@ko12599983 @UltRankSSB @SuperSmashCon It'll still only be one event though, it won't directly affect their score at other tournaments, it just gets tossed into the average.

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@ko12599983 @UltRankSSB @SuperSmashCon Depends on the event it occurred at (hurts a lot more at majors, especially supermajors than at regionals). There's two factors at play, the loss itself and the opportunity cost of not getting to advance further in the bracket, that are going to push the score for that event down

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@ko12599983 @UltRankSSB @SuperSmashCon The hard requirement is 1 open bracket major and 3 other open brackets, Carmelo has 4 open bracket majors so he meets attendance.

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@Sparg0ssb The UltRank algo consistently puts you ahead for that year, though the gap in older versions of the algorithm was larger than it is now.

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Narrowest gap between #1 and #2 in Ult history* boutta drop

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Reveals for the UltRank Half Year 2026 begin next week, and culminate with another live reveal at @SuperSmashCon on Thursday night! Stay tuned to see which players are leading the charge for the year so far!

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Twitter not do thumbs up reacts in DMs when I do my swipe to go back gesture challenge

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@monsta_eater Mid year is top 50, end of year is top 100!

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Begging the region of Kansai to answer their UltRank playercard surveys 😭😭😭

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@moor_willem @UltRankSSB @SuperSmashCon The period covered is Dec 16 2025 - Jul 17 2026, so no S Factor or GOML.

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Reveals for the UltRank Half Year 2026 begin next week, and culminate with another live reveal at @SuperSmashCon on Thursday night! Stay tuned to see which players are leading the charge for the year so far!

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This is very cool.

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Introducing RiftRank 2025.2 + 2026.1

A year-long algorithmic ranking of the last 2 UltRank half-year seasons

Here's the top 100!

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@_cookies_creme_

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If UltRank highlighted the 51st player (in mid year)/101st player (in full years) a couple days ahead of the main release, would y'all find that cool or would it feel mean-spirited?

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(Please elaborate if you have thoughts to elaborate upon)

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@Carme_Blade I think Japan not having prize pools compared to overseas plays a big role. Japan plays for pride, playing on a rigged ruleset = no pride in winning. Overseas plays to get ahead of the competition and get more of the prize pool, a ruleset rigged against another character helps.

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@HoshiSSB TrvthNvke

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I think this is largely unnecessary—tournaments that alienate a significant portion of the playerbase naturally will get fewer entrants and have less weight in the rankings. The bar for when we need to step and say "this can't be allowed to count" is and should be very high.

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Smash as a whole may need to have a conversation about whether or not a tournament with significantly different rules of play can even be tiered, as well as if the supernova TOs banning things (especially in older titles) is being done in good faith

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@LunaticJTV @juanpi_a1 Genuinely curious how you feel PGStats did tiering better.