Thread: 5.08 Patch Notes up

Originally Posted by Zyneste

People performing poorly is what affects the percentiles, the skill floor. Deaths out of the control of the Dragoon are the only thing that would skew the accuracy and even then, those sort of deaths will affect all jobs.

If Dragoons have a difficult rotation during certain encounters, it will be reflected in the percentiles and it will be easy to see the gap in the skill ceiling amongst players. This isn't really bias, this is what FFLOGs is meant to measure. How well each job does while doing mechanics. Dragoons as an example of course.

I don't think you understand what I'm referring to. Someone made a table that takes every single log on FFLogs and just averages the rdps together to form a basis for how classes compare against one another. Percentiles on FFlogs isn't in the discussion as it has nothing to do with the table. Percentiles just show you how good you are doing relative to others of your class vs. everyone else by log info. Uploading a ton of poor results would just end up making everyone else look slightly better (considering how low 100 dps is, pretty much any even casual player would move up from such an influx). But this doesn't really matter with the point that just averaging all logs ever together on the site isn't a good way to determine where classes compare against one another. You'd be way better off curating which logs you are averaging to avoid absurdly bad logs that make no sense. Of course, an actual test that is very well organized and controlled is going to be more reliable than even that.

Edit: Wait, nvm. It isn't quite as bad as I thought. It is only 95% percentile. While I still don't think that's nearly accurate enough since there isn't a good way to determine if the 95%+ percentile's of each role is of equal standing to one another in what classes are capable of with what's on the site, it isn't as bad as just all logs being averaged. I would take the table results with a grain of salt at best. You'd be better off having a more detailed selection for which logs to compare than just the 95% across the board if you were to use the site's recorded logs.