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  • Jamie 10:44 am on February 17, 2013 Permalink  

    Team TrueSkill Ratings 

    There will be a longer, more complete blog post coming on the Planet Kubb blog about this soon. But, here is a sneak peek on the pitch.

    The Planet Kubb wiki now has 1,091 tournament matches in it and 357 teams. Holy crap right? Yeah. Special hat tip to @dobbie,  @chrishodges and @garrick for doing a ton of work entering match information.

    Well, there is more. I wrote a bot that walks through every match in date order (see the code) and calculates a TrueSkill rating (TrueSkill was developed by Microsoft for Xbox Live, it’s like a modern version of ELO rating system). Each team starts with a μ score of 25.

    So, who is the top ranked team in Planet Kubb? They have a μ score of 42.948. Hint: It’s not the Kubbchucks, we have a score of 28.205.

    See the top 50 active teams scores.

    Also, if you haven’t checked out the event pages, club pages and team pages in a while. You should, they are much better. Like I said, more to come, this is a sneak peek.

    Disclaimer: Both TrueSkill and ELO scores are based on a series of games played and the various skill levels of those matches. The TrueSkill value is recalculated weekly. As more matches from the past are added, these values will update and change to reflect the additional data. So, beware that these are dynamic and updating values.

    Oh, and if you haven’t tried the Group X-Ray, give it a try. You’ll want to go here immediately when tournament groups are declared in the future. :-)

     

     

  • Jamie 9:45 pm on February 16, 2013 Permalink  

    Beaming with excitement at the conversation that I wasn’t able to be part of earlier tonight. How great!

     

  • Jamie 6:50 am on February 3, 2013 Permalink  

    Congrats to Team Knockerheads 

    Team Knockerheads winers of the 2013 Minnesota Kubb Loppet Tournament!

    Team Knockerheads at 2013 Minnesota Kubb Loppet Tournament

     

  • Jamie 6:49 am on December 6, 2012 Permalink
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    I was watching Survivor with the family last night. How fun would it be if Survivor had a reward challenge that was decided via a little Kubb tournament? They could do it when there are 12 players and have 4 teams of three play it out.

     

  • Jamie 7:30 am on December 2, 2012 Permalink
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    Email Notification of Mentions 

    I added a new capability on Pitch this morning. Now, if when you post or comment here and you using an @thingles to notify someone they will get an email letting them know. So, @garrick will get an email making sure he knows I mentioned him. This works in comments as well. Kubb on!

     

  • Jamie 7:14 pm on November 25, 2012 Permalink
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    A Kubb enthusiast from Indiana posted on the Planet Kubb Facebook wall today asking about starting his own Kubb club in Indiana. Rather than just answering once, I put together a page on the wiki on Starting a Kubb Club to help him out.

    However, I’ve never actually started a club so this is just what I would do. Several of you on Pitch have indeed started your own clubs and been very successful at it. It would be great if any of you could pitch in and add some more information to that page. Thanks!

     

  • Jamie 10:44 pm on November 13, 2012 Permalink  

    Fox Valley Kubb now on Planet Kubb Feed 

    @chad-b emailed me today to let me know that they have added a blog and RSS feed to the Fox Valley Kubb site. It is now syndicated in Planet Kubb! *fist pump*

     

  • Jamie 11:35 pm on October 19, 2012 Permalink  

    Register for 2013 Loppet Tournament! 64 team slots. Lets fill them up with as many 3-person teams as possible. (2-person teams required.)

     

  • Jamie 10:29 pm on October 16, 2012 Permalink
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    Swiss Club plays at the 2012 Kubb VM

     

  • Jamie 8:34 pm on October 16, 2012 Permalink
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    I thought it might help to take some of my generic To Do items for the Planet Kubb Wiki and put them on the wiki so if others are looking for something they could do, there is a list! I put this on the Community portal page.

    If you do one of them just strike the line done.

     

  • Jamie 1:04 pm on October 14, 2012 Permalink  

    Great job @swedenssons, @ringerjr and Scott in interview with Johan Lundin.

     

  • Jamie 9:10 am on October 13, 2012 Permalink  

    I want to share this big announcement with Pitch directly: Introducing Planet Kubb sites!

    I’m very excited about this and hope a bunch of people use it!

     

  • Jamie 10:24 pm on October 11, 2012 Permalink  

    It looks like Pitch stopped sending emails to people when new posts where created. I think I fixed that now, so I’m posting this to check that. This is a test. :-)

     

  • Jamie 9:43 pm on October 11, 2012 Permalink  

    This is JP’s photo but I wanted to archive it here for posterity.

     

  • Jamie 9:38 pm on October 11, 2012 Permalink  

    If you haven’t been to the new Planet Kubb site, you should. Check it out! Love to hear what everyone thinks. This also means that Planet Kubb now has an official blog so I’ll be putting big announcement stuff there instead of Pitch.

    Please feel free to use Pitch like a forum. It’s a place to just collaborate with fellow Kubbers!

     

  • Jamie 9:35 pm on October 11, 2012 Permalink  

    Can I just say that the Dallas Kubb tournament was awesome and I had a great time. I hope everyone enjoys the off season and see you all on the ice in February for the Loppet tournament!

     

  • Jamie 9:48 pm on September 29, 2012 Permalink  

    Sporting my new favorite shirt.

     

  • Jamie 8:51 pm on September 26, 2012 Permalink
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    Kubb (aka’Viking chess’) tournament raises money for charity

     

  • Jamie 8:49 pm on September 26, 2012 Permalink
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    Throw some wood at the Kubb Klassic

     

  • Jamie 8:31 pm on September 26, 2012 Permalink
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    Ask Planet Kubb Improvements (Sep 2012) 

    The open source software behind Ask Planet Kubb is Question2Answer and a new version came out today. I just upgraded Ask Planet Kubb to this new version (1.5.2 to 1.5.3). Most notably it has a much nicer theme that I’ve moved the site too. Much cleaner looking. I also updated the Polls plugin (1.5 to 2.1) and the Embed plugin (1.2 to 1.3). If you see anything wrong on the site leave a comment here.

    I also enabled Recaptcha on Ask Planet Kubb. There were over fifty accounts created by spammers, most never used for that intent but I really don’t think that many people with Russian email addresses were registering. To keep things clean, I enabled Recaptcha. I also enabled Recaptcha for anonymous users. You can still ask a question on Ask Planet Kubb without registering.

    Lastly, because we’ve had a couple of incidences of spam, I added yet another gate of moderation. For any account that has less than 150 points (you start with 100 and get points for activity) those posts, comments and answers will require moderation. This should alleviate any further questions about cheap health insurance. Ugh!

    Have a great day! Kubb on!

     

    • ringerjr 9:43 pm on September 26, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      I like the changes and extra spam filters are a good idea, hope they don’t eat much of your time!

      • Jamie 9:13 pm on September 27, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        Thanks Aaron. I don’t think the moderation will take more than a minute or so every few days. Once a person has over 150 points there is no moderation so it’s just for a short period of a new user.

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