FAL Maintenance & Week 4 Points Recalculation

Overall a good change and certainly one in the right direction. I'm very happy to see there is something being actually done about this issue that has terrorized the FAL community for years. The previous system was both something that was very time consuming for you and also lead to situations like this one (sadly not the first time this exact situation has happened...).

However, given this new reputation system, it will be impossible for us to track what happens during the last hour before a deadline. Have you considered locking in the points for the last hour like it worked in the past? With this new system we could be forced to gamble on whether the 5 new comments posted 30 mins before the deadline are from a legit source or not.

Please consider adding this quality of life feature!!
I would also consider making it so acing can only be done on Monday the week after the points are counted (so you'd ace for w1 during Monday of w2). There would be 2 reasons to do this:

1) New players constantly missace, because an anime caps before the end of the week and they locked in their ace too early
2) This is a game played by people all over the world and for some of them the deadline is 4 am in the morning. I know several people who have to set up alarms to wake up every 2nd week to get a correct ace... you can imagine how bad it must be for them. And with this new system where you can't even check the correct count yourself before the deadline it's even worse lol.

The only downside to this idea is that it gives good players an extra day of stats to work with, but I think it's a fair tradeoff and I don't think the competitive players would mind it.

Edit: I originally wrote this post 5 mins after waking up, so I'm editing it to include my full thoughts.

Overall a good change and certainly one in the right direction. I'm very happy to see there is something being actually done about this issue that has terrorized the FAL community for years. The previous system was both something that was very time consuming for you and also lead to situations like this one (sadly not the first time this exact situation has happened...).

However, given this new reputation system, it will be impossible for us to track what happens during the last hour before a deadline. Have you considered locking in the points for the last hour like it worked in the past? With this new system we could be forced to gamble on whether the 5 new comments posted 30 mins before the deadline are from a legit source or not.

Please consider adding this quality of life feature!!
I would also consider making it so acing can only be done on Monday the week after the points are counted (so you'd ace for w1 during Monday of w2). There would be 2 reasons to do this:

1) New players constantly missace, because an anime caps before the end of the week and they locked in their ace too early
2) This is a game played by people all over the world and for some of them the deadline is 4 am in the morning. I know several people who have to set up alarms to wake up every 2nd week to get a correct ace... you can imagine how bad it must be for them. And with this new system where you can't even check the correct count yourself before the deadline it's even worse lol.

The only downside to this idea is that it gives good players an extra day of stats to work with, but I think it's a fair tradeoff and I don't think the competitive players would mind it.

Edit: I originally wrote this post 5 mins after waking up, so I'm editing it to include my full thoughts.

All those missed aces helped my team, but I am glad it is being corrected. Missed aces due to circumstance like these are a terrible way to sink a good FAL team. I am also going to back the others in this thread suggesting a points lock prior to the deadline. The unknown reputation metric is not a bad idea, but I'm sure you understand deadline guessing is not ideal for competitive play.

I've been thinking about this... Do we actually need to ace manually?

Acing itself is a cool feature. But manual acing mainly exists to punish beginners, players from incompatible time zones (Asia/Australia/Oceania), and leave the rest open to sabotage in some cases. Abuse cases aside, there's no competitive advantage to acing correctly because once you understand the mechanics and are awake before deadline, it is completely trivial for any competitive player to look at two numbers and see which one is bigger. It's an intellectual task most of us learn to accomplish years before we can legally register at MAL.

Real competitive advantage comes from team composition and positioning of shows between active and bench which enables an experienced player to control which show is the eligible ace for the week. Making the ace declaration automatic doesn't change this in the slightest.

That being said, we'd still want to either lock stats in advance or allow post-lock actions to make emergency swaps. I'm not sure which one is better, both have upsides and downsides; maybe we could vote on it?

@KingYoshi What about those that made suboptimal moves because of the chaos introduced by the spammers? Are they just SOL? I think the affected silent witch players should get to reorganize thier team for a period of time to correct this completely.