Rating not being updated?

Same here, has been like this for close to a week. Probably the main reason I was able to stay at #1 for this long.

See Random Challanges

For my bot it seems that only the automatic games being played count towards the number of games played shown on the leader board (and your profile page). Do you count the bots you challenged manually towards those 90 games too?

My bot has only played 3 of those "automatic" games in the last 12 or so hours, so the number of games played that is shown for my bot is low too.

Yes, I noticed also that my score changes independently of manual matches. I also tried to notice if it updates after N games but I think not. It seems updated either after random matches only or at regular time intervals.

The ranker has been updated to discard results stemming from challenged matches when calculating a players rank. This due to the fact that the challenge feature makes it possible to exploit a bot's specific behaviour, thus making it possible to violate the fifth rule listed under site rules:

Entries which are deemed to violate the spirit of fair and sportsmanlike competition will be disqualified from all (future) competitions without any opportunity for appeal. In particular, memory scanning, intentionally losing games, and behavior conditional on the opponent's identity are prohibited.

Ok, that makes perfect sense! Is there any consideration to limiting the number of challenges, then? Because while challenges are useful to test, it seems like they might be being abused (8/9 of my matches are challenges, most of which I am be the one being challenged). Assuming challenges detract from the number of "legitimate" matches, I would pick more "legitimate" matches over being able to challenge people, but that's just my personal opinion.

I hope that the number of challenged games does not affect the number of scheduled games (as melsonator assumes), because that in itself would be a way to influence the leaderboard: by challenging a lot of opponents when you are at the top of the leaderboard, you could prevent any scheduled games from happening.

Nevertheless this seems to be the case: my bot is also challenged a lot, and it played only 11 scheduled games in the last 45 hours. That's way too few to move up or down on the leaderboard.

By the way: It would also be nice to see in the game log which games are scheduled and which games were challenged, and by whom. And to be able to filter on these two categories.

We're aware of the fact that there are not enough ranked matches being played. Adding server capacity is on the roadmap for early next month.

According to my stats, using all played games,and all versions, this would be the current ranking. To overcome potential cherry picking, the average score against every other bot (both with O and X) are seen as two games played.

   1  2291  HalesJewett v29 (95)
   2  2046  TripleBot v38 (101)
   3  2018  Dolan v94 (574)
   4  1979  Kaasschaaf v29 (638)
   5  1881  SimulatedButter v8 (68)
   6  1840  luckman_Ultimate v26 (43)
   7  1839  Jaeger v47 (12)
   8  1822  Toast v119 (75)
   9  1818  WildCat_Ultimate v5 (339)
  10  1784  AJuin v19 (70)
  11  1719  lemonade v16 (272)
  12  1716  TeaTime v13 (46)
  13  1704  yergicoltest v12 (119)
  14  1700  ButterCheeseEgg v16 (27)
  15  1686  chianti_Ultimate v28 (171)
  16  1682  Ultimus v12 (247)
  17  1680  Daybreak v43 (21)
  18  1662  Suodeth v24 (124)
  19  1567  Gynther_Ultimate v10 (72)
  20  1554  MapleSyrup v32 (310)
  21  1546  tvv766_Ultimate v8 (16)
  22  1529  TikTak v23 (4)
  23  1483  Mqthiqs v22 (25)
  24  1456  RandToe v11 (18)
  25  1426  tonkstactoe v46 (134)
  26  1406  Azerbaijan v32 (51)
  27  1404  PrimaBot v0 (491)
  28  1381  jesmiatka v2 (398)
  29  1380  toddler v8 (197)
  30  1379  Lennier_Ultimate v12 (10)
  31  1348  ClockworkOrange v5 (242)
  32  1342  PHPDefenderBot v21 (32)
  33  1328  Wimpie v21 (2)
  34  1323  supinf_Ultimate v3 (26)
  35  1308  yawbym_Ultimate v7 (312)
  36  1291  AaronTheApe_Ultimate v2 (102)
  37  1283  TDUB v9 (279)
  38  1268  HAL v23 (50)
  39  1259  tidebot v24 (196)
  40  1174  Slava_Ultimate v7 (19)
  41  1167  Puzzle84_Ultimate v14 (214)
  42  1164  Washington v38 (183)
  43  1133  mvakili_Ultimate v1 (11)
  44  1126  ShallowBot v81 (90)
  45  1055  IAmHungry v5 (184)
  46  1043  SemicedevineWL_Ultimate v1 (171)
  47  1026  UltiTactical v0 (230)
  48   994  jim_Ultimate v1 (225)
  49   990  freshlight_Ultimate v2 (15)
  50   981  TicTacDawg v0 (218)
  51   962  BH4_Ultimate v23 (152)
  52   946  CaveUltimate v2 (173)
  53   875  Taccer v7 (98)
  54   791  Eifjeifje_Ultimate v0 (31)
  55   397  pixartist_Ultimate v10 (120)