snipped from RoboRumble/RankingChat20070224:
Just because I was curious which bot was The best scoring bot against the most bots, (and because I need some Perl on my next assignment) I started with Perl and made a script that counts the number of times a bot is the best bot against any other bot. Example: I know GrubbmGrb is the best bot against fnc.bandit2002, you can check that. The outcome has no real surprises I think, but it can be interesting for the ones that like all sorts of rankings.
[[results 7 feb 2006]]
[[results 6 mar 2007]]
| rank | best | botname | RR-ranking | |
| 1 | 88 | mue.Ascendant_1.2.5 | 1 | |
| 2 | 47 | abc.tron3.Shadow_3.69k | 4 | |
| 3 | 45 | pez.rumble.[CassiusClay 2gamma]? | 2 | |
| 4 | 33 | pulsar.[PulsarMax 0]?.8.9 | 3 | |
| 5 | 30 | axeBots.[SilverSurfer 2]?.53.33 | 5 | |
| 6 | 18 | jam.[RaikoMX 0]?.32 | 6 | |
| 7 | 16 | florent.test.Toad_0.14t | 9 | |
| 8 | 12 | voidious.Dookious_0.75b | 11 | |
| 9 | 10 | davidalves.Phoenix_0.27 | 10 | |
| 10 | 9 | rz.Aleph_0.34 | 19 | |
| 11 | 8 | dft.Cyanide_1.80.b | 8 | |
| 12 | 7 | jam.mini.Raiko_0.43 | 29 | |
| 12 | 7 | pe.[SandboxDT 3]?.02 | 16 | |
| 12 | 7 | tide.pear.Pear_0.62.1 | 7 | |
| 15 | 6 | dft.Immortal_1.31 | 18 | |
| 15 | 6 | pez.mini.Pugilist_2.3 | 17 | |
| 17 | 5 | gh.[GrubbmGrb 1]?.1.3 | 50 | |
| 17 | 5 | pez.rumble.Ali_0.3.1 | 13 | |
| 19 | 4 | apv.test.Virus_0.6.1 | 15 | |
| 19 | 4 | gh.mini.Gruwel_0.8 | 129 | |
| 19 | 4 | voidious.Shaakious_0.12 | 21 | |
| 19 | 4 | wcsv.PowerHouse.[PowerHouse 1]?.5 | 14 | |
| 23 | 3 | abc.tron3.Tron_3.11 | 26 | |
| 23 | 3 | jam.micro.[RaikoMicro 1]?.44 | 38 | |
| 25 | 2 | 6 bots | ||
| 31 | 1 | 18 bots |
-- GrubbmGait
Hey, that's neat! I like any type of ranking that puts Dookious higher than his true RoboRumble rating =) Wow, Ascendant really is a monster. -- Voidious
Very cool indeed! -- ABC
Yes, very cool. And I think there is something for us to learn from this, even if it eludes me exactly what the lesson is... -- PEZ
Knowing the average ranking of the bots you'r the best against should also be interesting, maybe. The more rankings the better. :) -- ABC
By the way, PEZ, I remember somewhere on the wiki a situation (I checked, ABCsLinkedListChallenge) where you likened yourself to Pooh... Your comment here also seemed very Pooh-like to me. =) -- Voidious
For the complete list including victims, but without ranking, see https://home.versatel.nl/gheijenk/robocode/things/bestbot.html Note that this ranking is from the 7th! -- GrubbmGait
Wow, thanks. That's some really interesting reading. I have none of Kawigi's bots on CC's list. Pooh is starting to think here. Think, think, think. Hmmm, I think I need some food. =) -- PEZ
Nice! I'm surprised to see LifelongObsession at #5! I think we should put a very high significance on this style of ranking ;). Even more surprising is WeeksOnEnd at #7. Totaling the two, that gives Single Tick Pattern Matching 36 of the best scores in the game! -- Simonton
Yeah, your bots definitely jumped out at me, too. Other notable scores, to my eye, were GresSuffurd at #8, Ugluk at #15, and CassiusClay / PulsarMax being as low as #12/#13 (while the top 4 is still the top 4). Definitely an interesting look at what bots have some unique strengths. And considering Grishnakh is an older version of Ugluk, either one might be a lot higher if the other wasn't there. Lastly, it's interesting that SandboxDT is only best against 2 bots, and Dookious is one of them; though it changes for Dooki from version to version, often being Shadow or Phoenix instead. -- Voidious
Note that the differences could be very small, like 6000-1 against 6001-1 for ad.last.Bottom. That the bot(s) of Simonton and Martin are that high ranked was no surprise for me, as they have a unique approach. As for the non-top-4 surfers, I think they are cannibalized by Dookious, that bot really is a monster. The only surprise for me is the high ranking of GresSuffurd, as it is not unique in any aspect, only quite clean and straightforward. -- GrubbmGait
With 6 of the 8 bots that Ugluk beats beyond all others are very unlikely to hit a specific movement style, and Ugluk exclusively employs that movement style against them. The other two are likely also vulnerable to the same movement, but it isn't hard-coded like with the others. I agree that without Grishnakh competing for the same low hanging fruit, Ugluk would have had 12-16 instead of 8. -- Martin
GrubbmGait, would you be willing to give this another run? Or...I'd be willing to run it if you send me the script. -- Skilgannon
Just for the record, I've written a [short program] (more of a script =) ) that downloads all the bots' data files for you. Here's the latest [results]. I have a feeling Stormrider is stealing a lot of DrussGT's bots (or vice versa) =) -- Skilgannon
Cool! I think these are really neat stats. However, I'm not sure it's worth posting new results until the RoboRumble results are fixed. =( -- Voidious
I knew there were some smarter people out there that could make such a script/program, thanks Skilgannon for your effort. Do note that running it could give quite a stress on the server, especially if more people do it. Results do seem a lot closer together than early this year (see links on top of page), but 'quote Voidious' -- GrubbmGait
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