Event: Daario Naharis - Kill of Named Character (Kills)
Episode 2: The House of Black and White at 51:07
51:07
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Daario Naharis :
Daario beheads Mossador with his arakh in a public execution. Mossador was sentenced to death on Daenerys' orders, after he murdered the captive Son of the Harpy.
(Kill of Named Character)
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Lol 10 points for executing an unarmed freedman and 2 points for killing mounted knights of the vale. Seems legit. -ethanjeffreyschmidt
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Yep, that's the point breakdown - Mossador is a named character, which is worth 5x more than each of Littlefinger's soldiers, who were unnamed. The difficulty of the kill isn't a scoring factor, since that can't be qualified objectively. -nyan
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Hey, wrong place for this question but there's no "general" chat as far as I can see: Roto scoring seems to be cumulative. I was under the impression that you'd get roto scores each episode, and THOSE would accumulate. Cumulative total seems stupid. Cersei will doubtless dominate drinking the entire time, and the fighting characters will dominate kills, whereas per-episode accumulation means that characters who have an epic episode will actually make a difference. -alicehanners
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For example, episode 1, X character scores 10 points for kills, Y character scores 4 points. X and Y are both on Team XYZ. Episode 2, A character and B characters both score 6 points each for kills, both on team ABC.
Team XYZ landed NO kills in episode 2, yet they get top listing for kills for episode 2 because they got 14 points LAST time.
Whereas per-episode would have Team XYZ and Team ABC tied for kills in roto, because they each performed well during one episode.
Cumulative total means it's harder and harder and harder for low-scoring teams to ever move up in roto, because instead of trying to do well in the episode, they're trying to do well compared to everyone else--which is exactly what raw stats does.
BTW I'm currently #1 in my league in Roto, so this isn't butthurt. Another member of my league got 10 points for kills yet they're tied for 2nd for kills because the other 2nd place person scored last episode. -alicehanners
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If you have a low scoring team week in and week out, I don't think you should be able to move up in the rankings, right? You should have to have players that score points to move up. Roto scoring will keep it closer than raw scoring because the total points you can get for each category is limited by how many teams are in your league, but you still have to have points to move up in the standings. You're best bet might be head-to-head scoring if you want something to matter from week to week, but that also has its limitations because some characters can disappear for several episodes (i.e. Roose, Theon, and Ramsay so far) -wpearsal
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wpearsal, it wouldn't be about moving up in the rankings if you have a low-scoring team. It would mean moving up in the rankings--just a BIT--if your team is the ONLY one scoring. Imagine if your team sucks through episodes 1-5 and then in episode 6, you score 5x what anyone else does in every category. Yet it barely makes a dent in raw stats and doesn't affect you at all in roto. I'm not saying you should win, but "winning" an episode should matter. -alicehanners
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Clarifying a bit on Roto scoring - Roto Points *always* represent the current state for the season so far, NOT the current episode. So huge performances *will* be able to dramatically shift the standings, similar to normal Direct Points (but unlike the H2H leagues).
So alicehanners in your scenario:
TeamsA/B/C (3 teams) all score 3-5 kills per episode, from Episodes 1-8.
TeamD scores 1 kill per episode from E1-8, and is last place in the category so far.
At the end of E8, TeamA/B/C will have 4, 3, and 2 Roto pts for Kills. TeamD will have 1 Roto pt.
Then TeamD has a HUGE Episode 9 where they score 100+ Kills, enough to put them in 1st place overall for the season. They will jump 3 spots in the category ranking, and at the end of E9 TeamD has 4 Roto pts for Kills, A/B/C have 3, 2, and 1 pts.
Say E10 is a quiet episode and everyone has 1-2 kills, not enough to change the standings. In that case, TeamD remains in the lead for Kills, and ends the season with 4 Roto pts and wins the league (if Kills are the only category).
So for "it barely makes a dent in raw stats and doesn't affect you at all in roto", I think the opposite is actually true. A big episode can mean a huge standings shift in Roto and Normal Direct-scoring leagues. H2H is where it would be impossible to make a big standings shift (a win is still just 1 win, regardless of whether you win 18-15 or 88-15). -nyan
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