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

[fromduc]

Tx dude, nice work as always. I had a little hope to join top 10 but i knew 11th would be more realistic. Made good work wednesday night with 1812, but miss everything thursday, so... maybe next month

By the way one question: i see my friend Benj is #3 on who dunnit instead of #4, who did u delete in top 3 and why?

 

[invitro]

FailSight. I don't have the reasons handy, but they can be found with a search of this forum .

 

[fromduc]

FailSight. I don't have the reasons handy, but they can be found with a search of this forum .

OK i got it

And just to have an idea, how long does it take to u each time u do this leaderboard?

 

[TomL]

Has anyone considered storing the raw data scraped from the leaderboards into a google docs spreadsheet?

 

[capslock42]

Awesome. Just found this thread today (I have an 8 month old so not much time to be on the forums) and happy to see that I am in the top 50, I would be a bit higher but my Season 3 scores mostly are on the PC (CapsLock42) and not on my PSN (Caps_Lock420) but I am not complaining at all. Just wish Farsight would implement an Overall leader board function in-game like the Tourny standings, oh well. Thanks again for this thread, ill keep up to date on it from here on.

 

[Pinballwiz45b]

Awesome. Just found this thread today (I have an 8 month old so not much time to be on the forums) and happy to see that I am in the top 50, I would be a bit higher but my Season 3 scores mostly are on the PC (CapsLock42) and not on my PSN (Caps_Lock420) but I am not complaining at all. Just wish Farsight would implement an Overall leader board function in-game like the Tourny standings, oh well. Thanks again for this thread, ill keep up to date on it from here on.

Good to see you here!

 

[JPelter]

Thanks again for doing this invitro. It's fairly interesting seeing collated data from the leaderboards. I don't know if you have the ability to, but it would be interesting to see scoring charts for various tables for the top 1000 or 500 players or something; as in what the scoring distribution is like.

 

[invitro]

And just to have an idea, how long does it take to u each time u do this leaderboard?

Maybe ten minutes of effort. It is all programmed. I issue one command to suck down the scores, and one to print the HTML leaderboard. Then I copy and paste the HTML to this site. Sucking the scores from the Farsight webpage takes maybe an hour or two, so I start that command and let it run, and check on its progress later. But there are usually a couple of things I have to check. The webserver usually fails a response a couple of times, and my program is unfortunately not robust enough to handle that without my telling it to resume at the last successful table. And I manually check which is the latest table with scores on the website, and manually update some numbers and dates in my programs.

But I'm not real sure about the time it takes, because I'm generally very interested in seeing what has happened this month, who has had a really good month of scores, and so I take time looking at the data, maybe writing more programs, and so I generally take an hour or two messing around with this stuff.

Scanning the top ten scores for possible hacked scores takes some time, mainly because I'm rarely comfortable with calling a score a hack. And I still don't have a good way of telling if a score is a hack (which results in that username being deleted), or a glitch (which results in only that score being deleted). So the only things I call glitches right now, I think, are the RBioN 10B and 20B scores. Someone a few posts above mentions a SS glitch. I have had that happen in I think one game. I don't know how to test for it, so I'm ignoring it unless you folks say something forceful .

I have actually spent more time on this leaderboard, than in playing TPA, for the last four or so months. I have been too hooked on Skyrim and then Oblivion to play any other computer games. I am hoping that I haven't gotten bored of playing TPA.

 

[invitro]

Has anyone considered storing the raw data scraped from the leaderboards into a google docs spreadsheet?

I'm not sure if that's addressed to me , but if so, I am not willing to do the work to do that at this time. (For one thing, I haven't made a google-docs sheet before, and I don't know if one of them can be updated remotely by command-line, which would be a requirement.) But sucking the data is easy if you know a little Perl or other similarly-capable language.

 

[invitro]

Thanks again for doing this invitro. It's fairly interesting seeing collated data from the leaderboards. I don't know if you have the ability to, but it would be interesting to see scoring charts for various tables for the top 1000 or 500 players or something; as in what the scoring distribution is like.

Someone did that a few months ago. Did you see the charts he made? He made one for every table, I think. I can't remember any details that might help in finding that post, though. I may have replied. I'm pretty sure vikingerik replied. The RBioN one was the most interesting, I think, as it showed the 10B and 20B glitches very clearly. There were other interesting things, like maybe a concentration of scores just above a wizard goal, or a max hall-of-fame score or something.

I'm not willing to make charts right now, but maybe sometime soon.

I have been wanting to do something interesting with time, since I have like six months of snapshots now. But I haven't been able to think of anything interesting enough.

 

[vikingerik]

The scoring distribution charts are up in this same thread, go to post #31.

 

[fromduc]

Ok, tx for desribing the process, interesting. And dont get bored of the game, we neeed you ^^ Give a shot to tables you never really like, u could be surprised

 

[Beatnik-Filmstar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L09qnRfZY-k

..to a deluxe apartment in the mid-30's.....

 

[vikingerik]

Time for an update? I may or may not have been playing Firepower last night just to get a score in in time for an update today.

 

[invitro]

Top 100 for 2014-09-05

Here's the Top 100 for 2014-09-05!

Rank (previous) Change	Username	Points	# of Top 10 Scores (previous)	# of Top 100 Scores (previous)	# of Top 500 Scores	Best Scores
1 (1) 0	vikingerik	2388	31 (30)	40 (40)	40	#1 on MB, #1 on CftBL, #1 on Taxi, #1 on NGG
2 (2) 0	AntonR	2249	32 (31)	49 (48)	49	#1 on Centaur, #1 on ElDor, #1 on FT, #1 on BK2K
3 (3) 0	Tarek Oberdieck	2239	24 (23)	25 (24)	26	#1 on FH, #1 on BK, #1 on Genie, #1 on DrDude
4 (4) 0	Eoner321	1639	12 (13)	46 (45)	49	#1 on HRC, #5 on HS, #5 on LCA, #7 on BH
5 (5) 0	Space Tractor	1606	12 (13)	35 (34)	48	#1 on Victory, #1 on CBW, #1 on JY, #5 on SpSh
6 (7) +1	Toolinit	1548	11 (9)	49 (42)	49	#3 on Fl2000, #3 on GoinNuts, #3 on HRC, #4 on HD3E
7 (6) -1	Sir_Moovenstein	1546	14 (14)	30 (32)	36	#1 on CV, #2 on AFM, #3 on T2, #3 on ElDor
8 (11) +3	Fromduc	1307	8 (5)	33 (32)	43	#2 on Co1812, #2 on WD, #2 on HS, #4 on NGG
9 (8) -1	Just this guy	1210	9 (9)	31 (31)	42	#2 on CBW, #2 on JY, #3 on NGG, #6 on WD
10 (9) -1	TOUGE_KILLER	1140	10 (10)	29 (30)	40	#1 on BRose, #3 on DrDude, #5 on Firep, #5 on WWind
Rank (previous) Change	Username	Points	# of Top 10 Scores (previous)	# of Top 100 Scores (previous)	# of Top 500 Scores	Best Scores
11 (10) -1	FALCO12-QUEBEC	1132	8 (8)	27 (28)	33	#3 on RBioN, #3 on EatPM, #4 on Centaur, #7 on CV
12 (12) 0	maestroreese	1093	3 (3)	36 (35)	46	#3 on CBW, #5 on DrDude, #8 on JY, #11 on Genie
13 (13) 0	Benj341276	965	4 (5)	25 (26)	40	#5 on Taxi, #5 on WD, #7 on CC, #8 on MB
14 (16) +2	pinballwiz45b	959	5 (4)	25 (24)	42	#4 on Diner, #6 on DrDude, #6 on HRC, #8 on SpSh
15 (15) 0	atoppachar	930	8 (8)	25 (23)	42	#2 on FT, #4 on Taxi, #5 on GoinNuts, #5 on BRose
16 (14) -2	www.vpforums.org	923	6 (6)	16 (16)	16	#1 on STTNG, #4 on AFM, #6 on BH, #6 on Genie
17 (17) 0	HUFMUF	785	6 (6)	15 (16)	25	#1 on TeedOff, #2 on TZ, #3 on HD3E, #3 on CP
18 (18) 0	dylan_h	784	4 (5)	26 (24)	47	#3 on LCA, #7 on DrDude, #7 on Co1812, #10 on TeedOff
19 (24) +5	phoerber	745	7 (6)	11 (10)	11	#1 on BoP, #2 on BK2K, #3 on HS, #5 on EatPM
20 (19) -1	invitro	732	1 (1)	28 (29)	43	#4 on FH, #12 on BH, #12 on MM, #12 on AFM
Rank (previous) Change	Username	Points	# of Top 10 Scores (previous)	# of Top 100 Scores (previous)	# of Top 500 Scores	Best Scores
21 (20) -1	Howling_Goro	729	8 (8)	12 (12)	21	#2 on STTNG, #2 on Centaur, #5 on TZ, #5 on T2
22 (22) 0	Misery410	721	5 (6)	14 (14)	16	#5 on CV, #5 on Genie, #8 on RBioN, #9 on Taxi
23 (23) 0	geohoo	720	4 (4)	27 (26)	41	#8 on WWind, #8 on LCA, #9 on HS, #10 on CC
24 (21) -3	Chopin6868	707	4 (5)	17 (19)	37	#3 on WWind, #4 on Co1812, #4 on FT, #8 on BK2K
25 (25) 0	pinballchris	646	3 (3)	30 (28)	47	#7 on ElDor, #9 on Co1812, #10 on CBW, #16 on NGG
26 (46) +20	Lupo23	629	6 (3)	7 (5)	7	#1 on BH, #1 on Gorgar, #1 on BigShot, #1 on CentPark
27 (26) -1	vpalmer	587	3 (3)	21 (20)	38	#6 on LCA, #9 on Centaur, #10 on SpSh, #13 on HRC
28 (29) +1	Tripple I	587	3 (3)	19 (20)	42	#3 on TeedOff, #4 on HS, #10 on LCA, #16 on BK2K
29 (28) -1	TRLBrony	568	2 (2)	25 (25)	41	#8 on Co1812, #8 on HRC, #13 on Fl2000, #20 on CBW
30 (27) -3	Crusty Booger	565	1 (1)	27 (29)	47	#7 on TeedOff, #11 on SpSh, #11 on Co1812, #14 on WWind
Rank (previous) Change	Username	Points	# of Top 10 Scores (previous)	# of Top 100 Scores (previous)	# of Top 500 Scores	Best Scores
31 (30) -1	Mark_Miwurdz	536	4 (4)	11 (11)	15	#4 on RBioN, #4 on BoP, #9 on FH, #9 on T2
32 (31) -1	Storm Chaser	518	1 (1)	25 (25)	43	#10 on GoinNuts, #14 on WD, #18 on Victory, #19 on ToM
33 (34) +1	Beatnik-Filmstar	496	2 (2)	20 (18)	46	#5 on Victory, #7 on HH, #13 on Co1812, #14 on LCA
34 (32) -2	benika7	452	3 (3)	11 (11)	13	#3 on CV, #3 on MB, #8 on CC, #15 on TZ
35 (33) -2	efbelo	448	2 (2)	15 (15)	34	#8 on Centaur, #10 on CentPark, #14 on MB, #14 on T2
36 (39) +3	Gus	442	2 (2)	16 (16)	27	#7 on Victory, #8 on CP, #15 on GoinNuts, #22 on Co1812
37 (36) -1	NeonZwei	437	4 (4)	9 (9)	10	#2 on BRose, #3 on AFM, #3 on FT, #7 on ToM
38 (37) -1	Phreaker47	434	5 (5)	6 (6)	15	#3 on HH, #5 on Fl2000, #6 on Taxi, #7 on BoP
39 (35) -4	djchrille	420	1 (1)	11 (11)	24	#7 on T2, #14 on HD3E, #14 on Victory, #16 on HH
40 (38) -2	PinHead970	419	4 (4)	8 (8)	10	#1 on WWind, #3 on Co1812, #6 on STTNG, #7 on TZ
Rank (previous) Change	Username	Points	# of Top 10 Scores (previous)	# of Top 100 Scores (previous)	# of Top 500 Scores	Best Scores
41 (40) -1	CaptainMisery	374	2 (2)	14 (14)	16	#7 on RBioN, #7 on FH, #13 on STTNG, #20 on BH
42 (43) +1	moldygoat	370	1 (1)	10 (9)	27	#7 on CP, #12 on WWater, #15 on BoP, #17 on WWind
43 (42) -1	Dizzer2012	360	2 (2)	14 (14)	28	#4 on CC, #9 on MB, #14 on Pin*Bot, #25 on BH
44 (41) -3	Jazza	356	1 (2)	21 (20)	43	#9 on HRC, #11 on Firep, #20 on LCA, #25 on CentPark
45 (53) +8	krazysteve1958	351	3 (3)	9 (8)	23	#3 on FH, #4 on LCA, #8 on CBW, #14 on Diner
46 (44) -2	ostrich2	338	2 (3)	12 (12)	17	#3 on CC, #10 on MB, #11 on HD3E, #11 on NGG
47 (45) -2	Caps_Lock420	336	2 (2)	15 (15)	29	#4 on ElDor, #5 on FT, #17 on Victory, #27 on WWind
48 (47) -1	CheesyBeefy88	332	1 (1)	18 (19)	38	#8 on BigShot, #15 on NGG, #19 on SpSh, #20 on CP
49 (48) -1	maezun	318	1 (1)	15 (15)	30	#10 on Pin*Bot, #14 on RBioN, #14 on ElDor, #21 on BRose
50 (49) -1	banane32	306	3 (3)	4 (4)	4	#3 on MM, #6 on MB, #6 on NGG, #13 on SS
Rank (previous) Change	Username	Points	# of Top 10 Scores (previous)	# of Top 100 Scores (previous)	# of Top 500 Scores	Best Scores
51 (50) -1	Mark_Miwurdz_US	301	1 (1)	7 (7)	8	#9 on RBioN, #12 on TZ, #14 on STTNG, #21 on T2
52 (51) -1	switch3flip	299	2 (3)	11 (10)	25	#6 on Centaur, #7 on HRC, #12 on Victory, #31 on FT
53 (54) +1	chk	291	1 (1)	11 (11)	32	#9 on BRose, #15 on Fl2000, #18 on FH, #23 on BK2K
54 (52) -2	Jake Alt	286	2 (2)	10 (10)	25	#4 on BRose, #7 on WD, #12 on BK2K, #28 on CV
55 (165) +110	impulse2007	275	2 (0)	6 (4)	14	#3 on WD, #6 on Diner, #14 on HRC, #19 on GoinNuts
56 (55) -1	Nemesis041	272	0 (0)	15 (14)	28	#11 on WWater, #13 on BK2K, #29 on HS, #31 on SS
57 (56) -1	choset	270	2 (2)	9 (9)	19	#1 on WWater, #10 on ToM, #27 on SS, #28 on STTNG
58 (57) -1	kovalev1985	268	2 (2)	8 (8)	16	#2 on CV, #8 on Taxi, #21 on RBioN, #34 on Centaur
59 (81) +22	West_Tiger	265	2 (2)	9 (5)	22	#4 on Firep, #7 on CentPark, #21 on CV, #28 on FT
60 (58) -2	rockman_x_2002	264	2 (2)	11 (12)	31	#7 on GoinNuts, #9 on HH, #19 on Fl2000, #34 on Firep
Rank (previous) Change	Username	Points	# of Top 10 Scores (previous)	# of Top 100 Scores (previous)	# of Top 500 Scores	Best Scores
61 (63) +2	II-Squid-II	259	1 (1)	8 (8)	13	#1 on RBioN, #13 on BoP, #18 on CV, #26 on MB
62 (60) -2	Herrbastun	258	1 (1)	7 (8)	15	#2 on EatPM, #15 on Taxi, #20 on MM, #26 on Genie
63 (59) -4	DeeEff	257	0 (0)	14 (14)	40	#18 on WWind, #20 on Centaur, #27 on TeedOff, #30 on FH
64 (61) -3	tiotbellot	257	0 (0)	10 (9)	22	#14 on TeedOff, #21 on Genie, #23 on CBW, #24 on HH
65 (116) +51	FalconPain	256	0 (0)	13 (8)	25	#15 on CP, #17 on NGG, #20 on HRC, #23 on WD
66 (62) -4	PieCES	250	0 (0)	14 (14)	32	#12 on Firep, #13 on BH, #17 on DrDude, #37 on CV
67 (68) +1	ER777	250	1 (1)	13 (13)	41	#5 on ElDor, #17 on CP, #27 on Genie, #35 on HH
68 (74) +6	dejhank	247	3 (2)	5 (5)	11	#4 on BK2K, #8 on Pin*Bot, #9 on NGG, #43 on Firep
69 (64) -5	ParallaxScroll	240	0 (0)	12 (12)	20	#21 on MM, #21 on Gorgar, #23 on CV, #31 on BigShot
70 (69) -1	OmegaDef	240	1 (1)	7 (7)	14	#2 on CftBL, #11 on CP, #23 on RBioN, #28 on Genie
Rank (previous) Change	Username	Points	# of Top 10 Scores (previous)	# of Top 100 Scores (previous)	# of Top 500 Scores	Best Scores
71 (66) -5	RIZ420_420_1	239	1 (1)	9 (10)	16	#5 on WWater, #13 on Pin*Bot, #27 on CP, #37 on CC
72 (67) -5	tuomas	238	1 (1)	9 (9)	17	#6 on AFM, #27 on SpSh, #29 on BH, #30 on Firep
73 (86) +13	slam23	228	0 (0)	18 (17)	43	#22 on FH, #29 on HD3E, #30 on ToM, #31 on ElDor
74 (65) -9	9u1d0	228	0 (0)	11 (11)	31	#14 on BH, #17 on HH, #26 on Pin*Bot, #31 on HRC
75 (99) +24	pinbotwms	225	0 (0)	14 (12)	34	#12 on BRose, #19 on Diner, #22 on Fl2000, #24 on BoP
76 (109) +33	TwitchDaWoof	223	2 (1)	7 (6)	20	#5 on STTNG, #9 on Diner, #27 on ToM, #32 on HRC
77 (70) -7	Nightmac21	223	0 (0)	16 (17)	34	#15 on TeedOff, #26 on CV, #34 on CBW, #36 on HD3E
78 (71) -7	siemas12345	220	1 (2)	7 (7)	20	#3 on SS, #11 on T2, #20 on HH, #59 on ElDor
79 (120) +41	CapsLock42	216	2 (1)	6 (8)	9	#4 on HRC, #8 on Diner, #33 on BK2K, #40 on BRose
80 (75) -5	Roy Wils	215	0 (0)	11 (11)	16	#15 on CV, #19 on FH, #28 on HD3E, #33 on NGG
Rank (previous) Change	Username	Points	# of Top 10 Scores (previous)	# of Top 100 Scores (previous)	# of Top 500 Scores	Best Scores
81 (73) -8	Julgran666	213	0 (0)	16 (15)	40	#18 on TeedOff, #24 on Firep, #27 on RBioN, #27 on WWater
82 (72) -10	ppeltola768	207	0 (0)	13 (15)	34	#12 on NGG, #22 on Victory, #23 on JY, #42 on BK2K
83 (84) +1	mattenno	206	0 (0)	7 (6)	10	#11 on MB, #13 on NGG, #13 on WWind, #48 on CC
84 (76) -8	LordEngi	206	0 (0)	9 (9)	28	#14 on HH, #18 on CBW, #25 on GoinNuts, #32 on Firep
85 (77) -8	ALOL997	202	1 (1)	7 (7)	18	#10 on CV, #20 on RBioN, #28 on EatPM, #30 on Gorgar
86 (89) +3	wfusdfcfdedeji83	198	0 (0)	4 (4)	9	#11 on RBioN, #15 on AFM, #16 on MB, #25 on HD3E
87 (78) -9	smbaydp	196	0 (0)	10 (10)	40	#12 on Fl2000, #13 on ElDor, #29 on BigShot, #47 on Pin*Bot
88 (79) -9	sneeking	195	0 (0)	8 (8)	17	#11 on Centaur, #14 on SpSh, #21 on Pin*Bot, #39 on Firep
89 (82) -7	kefran22	194	0 (0)	7 (7)	14	#13 on Firep, #17 on Genie, #27 on BoP, #27 on CftBL
90 (88) -2	Actionball	192	0 (0)	6 (6)	9	#11 on CftBL, #14 on Gorgar, #20 on Taxi, #28 on ToM
Rank (previous) Change	Username	Points	# of Top 10 Scores (previous)	# of Top 100 Scores (previous)	# of Top 500 Scores	Best Scores
91 (83) -8	ThePinbugArcade	192	2 (2)	3 (3)	4	#6 on Firep, #7 on Gorgar, #22 on CentPark, #135 on RBioN
92 (87) -5	Noak	192	1 (1)	7 (7)	16	#1 on SS, #16 on ElDor, #27 on Taxi, #63 on CV
93 (110) +17	Terpsichore6	191	2 (1)	6 (4)	10	#10 on HD3E, #10 on SS, #36 on ToM, #36 on CV
94 (91) -3	Glunt	190	2 (2)	2 (2)	2	#2 on BoP, #2 on Pin*Bot
95 (80) -15	gooche77	189	1 (1)	11 (11)	31	#9 on Genie, #29 on Firep, #36 on GoinNuts, #41 on WWind
96 (90) -6	Crazy Newt	184	0 (0)	14 (13)	27	#16 on Firep, #17 on HS, #37 on BRose, #42 on BH
97 (103) +6	kay989	184	1 (1)	12 (12)	32	#10 on BRose, #14 on BK2K, #37 on FT, #38 on JY
98 (100) +2	Retro Invaders	184	1 (1)	7 (6)	23	#10 on HRC, #14 on CC, #26 on WWind, #48 on CV
99 (161) +62	lllIIlIllIllIll	184	2 (1)	4 (3)	5	#5 on RBioN, #8 on TZ, #29 on MB, #88 on MM
100 (85) -15	baelgor	184	0 (0)	9 (9)	18	#17 on MM, #21 on JY, #24 on MB, #29 on CV

 

[fromduc]

Damn, was sure it was next week! But no regret, i did the top 10 i wanted and now the top 7 is too far. This will be my next winter goal, between #7 and #4, top 3 is definitely composed with Martians from another planete

PS: and of course tx again Invitro <3

 

[EldarOfSuburbia]

Damn, was sure it was next week! But no regret, i did the top 10 i wanted and now the top 7 is too far. This will be my next winter goal, between #7 and #4, top is definitely composed with Martians from another planete

PS: and of course tx again Invitro <3

Everyone above a certain point is from another planet and is able to bend time to their will as far as I'm concerned. I'll be happy to crack the lower reaches of the Top 100. I'm going for consistency across as many tables as possible to achieve that goal. I'm still a long way away and learning that Top 100 scores on some tables are currently a long way from where I am!

 

[vikingerik]

If I were a Martian, I would be easily defeated with just six or eight pinball hits. But I am far more powerful than that. Maybe a dirty pool though...

Thanks again Invitro! If you're still taking suggestions, I'd love to see the "Best Scores" column drill deeper - ideally to be able to see all of the rankings that are counted (half the tables as you've said.) That would take up a lot of space visually though of course. Maybe break that out into a separate list apart from the main grid?

 

[fromduc]

If I were a Martian, I would be easily defeated with just six or eight pinball hits. But I am far more powerful than that. Maybe a dirty pool though...

Thanks again Invitro! If you're still taking suggestions, I'd love to see the "Best Scores" column drill deeper - ideally to be able to see all of the rankings that are counted (half the tables as you've said.) That would take up a lot of space visually though of course. Maybe break that out into a separate list apart from the main grid?

I was talking about the 3 of u, Tarek and Anton are the same kind, and this battle (let's say... between Plutonians ;p ) is nice to follow!

 

[fromduc]

Everyone above a certain point is from another planet and is able to bend time to their will as far as I'm concerned. I'll be happy to crack the lower reaches of the Top 100. I'm going for consistency across as many tables as possible to achieve that goal. I'm still a long way away and learning that Top 100 scores on some tables are currently a long way from where I am!

Well 6 months ago i was in your shoes, i didnt go for top 10s before to be top 100 almost everywhere, and it took a while. The good thing on this game is that if u got time and if u follow advices of a couple of guys in strategic threads u got a HUGE marge of progress