I need to create a function/method ( in python) which calculates a high score “leaderboard”. Each player will have played any number of rounds of the game, recieving a score for each round. I want to know what’s the best way to sort the top ranking players (accounting for score AND number of rounds played). The possible scores for each round are F, D-, D, D+, C-, C, C+, B-, B, B+, A-, and A.
Obviously a simple average won’t work because it doesn’t take into account number of rounds played. Whats the best way to set up a fair sorting function?
EDIT: I’ve been reading some of the really great answers here and I want to try to clear up my question a bit. I want both the players score AND the number of rounds they’ve played to count towards their ranking in a way that’s fair. Meaning a player with 20 B’s should be of a higher rank than a player with 5 A’s. Basically the high score should reflect general effort and skill, “the number of rounds played PLUS their score” means the higher their ranking should be.
EDIT 2: After reading the answers, I think the best way to do it is a simple total sum of the players points across all rounds. I’m not sure which answer to assign the green check to because you were all correct.
There are many ways that you could do this. Try this for example, let F-A be 0-11 (you can make your own; however try to take difficulty into account), so each score is one higher than the previous. For every game you play, you receive a score (from 0-11). Create a total score and add the game score every time to the total score. That way, if a person receives 7 A’s, that’s 77, while a person that receives 7 A-‘s gets a score of 70, then simply sort them accordingly. Each function has its drawbacks of course. This function is not the “best”, consider getting 20 B’s would exceed 7 A’s even though, 7 A’s is a much better score. if you can give me more details about how you want to rank them, then it will be much easier to get the algorithm down.