Comments on: Rock Band Competition Scoring

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:41:17 +0000

Hey dude, this is pretty awesome. Im gonna encorporate it to our Rock Band Bar Nights and i’ll get back to you on how it worked. Thanks !

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:18:07 +0000

Great stuff! I’m organizing an RB tournament for next week. Your formulae, while very accurate (esp #2), seem to be a little too much work to figure out on-the-fly as it were, though I’m considering letting the bands submit their songlist beforehand, which would alleviate a lot of the issues.

I’m going to noodle this, and will come back with a post if I devise something that’s simpler, but effective in a more casual setting where there are mass quantities of alcohol involved and even the organizer wants to rock out rather than hang out with a calculator!

Great stuff! Now, I just need to figure out what the best way will be to create the “playoffs”…

By: Cross

Cross — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:32:49 +0000

On average when playing a song at medium difficulty I will get 97%. Switching to hard reduces this to 91%. That’s a 3 point loss in execution for a 1 point gain in difficulty level.
The increase in diffculty between easy->medium, medium->hard, and hard->expert is not identical and I think the equation needs some work in that area.

By: Cliff

Cliff — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:42:51 +0000

The current formula is a good start, better than what I’ve seen at other tournaments. However, there is a flaw in your Instrument Score. Under the current system, drumming Ace of Spades on Medium would net you 7 points (1 + 6 = 6), as would drumming Interstate Love Song on Expert (3 + 4 = 7). These two experiences are not equal, but under your system they would be. I suggest changing the formula like so:

Instrument Score = (Difficulty Level x Song Rating)

And changing the Difficulty Level values such that Easy = 1 and Expert = 4 and doing the same for Song Rating (no circles = 1, demon heads = 7). You could then scale it to make it worth about the same as song execution (dividing the score by 3 brings the max to 37.3, you could fiddle with the numbers to make them nicer). Under this formula, Medium drumming Ace of Spades is worth 14 points (2 x 7 = 14) and Expert Drumming Interstate Love Song is worth 20 (4 x 5 = 20), which I think is closer to the actual difference in difficulty.

Sorry for giving you a long-winded, more complicated potential solution to your scoring woes.