Zaccaria Pinball Unofficial "Hall of Wizards" - FAQ

  How is calculated the Wizard Score ?

Each scoreboard has a coefficient (Achievements and Simulation = 3, Arcade = 2, Others category = 1, User = 0).
Each ranking has an amount of points (top5 : 2000 points, top10 : 1000, top25 : 500, top50 : 250, top 100 : 100).
Wizard Score sums coeff x points earned. Simple and easy !

So, yes, it's a fact, more you have pinball tables, more you can score.
So, if you want to compete seriously for Wizard Score, it's highly recommended to get the "Platinum Bundle" ...

  Why I can't find my last scores or even my profile ?

First, these pages are not refreshed in real-time.
A WEB crawler checks STEAM leaderboards sometimes and refresh statistics here (Last crawling session : Fri Apr 26 06:12:42 CEST 2024)
The profile informations may be not completed due to some privacy limitations settings.
Also, in order to limit useless WEB requests, only the first 150 players of each scoreboard are kept.
At last, the process tries to eliminate cheaters from ranking ...

  How I can contact the player behind these page ?

For any comment, suggestion, bug report, unfair ban, you can contact me via my profile on STEAM.
Feel free to add me as friend too if you want :)

  Changelog

* 2023/03/26
  - backend : ajust formula about achievements cheaters (again)
  
* 2022/08/31
  - backend : ajust formula about achievements cheaters
  
* 2021/11
  - backend : fix random errors during STEAM profiles fetching (due to an OS update)
  
* 2021/01
  - backend/frontend : host migration (not related to this project)
  
* 2020/05/26
  - frontend : bugfixes (score evolution on main users page failed sometimes)
  - frontend : add 2 charts on user page (wizard score evolution, score distribution)

* 2020/05/25
  - frontend : add score evolution on main page
  - frontend : rebuild FAQ page
  - frontend : server side for the main page data (loading 13s -> 1s) 

* 2020/05/22
  - public annoncement on STEAM forum
  - backend : add history for rank/score wizard

* 2020/05/18
  - first automatic runs for Crawler
  - frontend : done at 80%

* 2020/05/15
  - backend : crawler testing / Bug Fixes
  - backend : for cheaters done
  - front end : from scratch

* 2020/05/12
  - backend : crawler done at 80%

* 2020/05/08
  - backend : init from scratch	
  - tools : webserver + database configuration
  - tools : tools/frameworks choices