Signature Performance - An Explanation

[HMXFed]

Since there's been a lot of discussion, here's some info about how signature performance works and two recent changes we made to it.

1. Until recently we were choosing a performance that might not have been on your best or your favorite instrument. Now it will be on the instrument you have the highest career (plus DLC) score on. (Keys/Pro-keys might be underrepresented because there are fewer songs that can add to their career score.)

2. We also recently started giving extra performance points for songs played on higher difficulties and for songs at higher difficulty tiers. Before, easier songs were too heavily represented in signature performances. This is called the "Charlene adjustment" because I didn't want Charlene to be my signature performance anymore.

Your specific rank # on a leaderboard doesn't affect signature performance because it's not normalized across songs. A rank of #1,000 on a leaderboard with 1,000 scores means something very different than #1,000 on a leaderboard with 100,000 scores. So it's not useful for comparing performance across different songs.

Stars and accuracy also aren't directly considered. What we do look at is your score, in a way that's normalized across songs. Scoring highly is the most important thing. Gold stars, 100% accuracy, and a high leaderboard rank will help because they go along with high scores, but they won't guarantee a signature performance.

[Bront20]

Awesome, thanks!

[TheHundredDollarHeadache]

Good. This is a push for me to sing more, so I can finally unseat the humble five-button guitar as my highest scoring instrument, and a Timmy FC as my signature performance. Only got five million points to go.

Now I understand why Timmy was a shoo-in for my signature performance - high tier, RB1 export so it's pretty common, top 1% score.

[Doc_SoCal]

Cool data, thanks.

My current sig performance is my favorite so far.

[Harerazer]

When do you update this? I ask because my Signature Performance had rotated between four of the songs I have #1 scores in but now it's just a song i did well in (#7). Does it change whenever there's significant movement/change or just whenever?

[HMXFed]

If you've just played a song and got a score that would qualify it as your new signature performance it should show up on your profile page within an hour or two.

[TheHundredDollarHeadache]

A suggestion, related to the "signature performances might not be on our best or favorite instruments" bit, and the keys underrepresentation:

Supplement the "Scores Highest On" instrument with a "Most Skilled On" instrument based on relative rank for disc song total score, and have our signature performances be on the "Most Skilled On" instrument.

Or better yet, just letting us pick a favorite instrument like the Rock Band 2 days.

[Bront20]

A suggestion, related to the "signature performances might not be on our best or favorite instruments" bit, and the keys underrepresentation:

Supplement the "Scores Highest On" instrument with a "Most Skilled On" instrument based on relative rank for disc song total score, and have our signature performances be on the "Most Skilled On" instrument.

Or better yet, just letting us pick a favorite instrument like the Rock Band 2 days.

Or do your signature performance on each instrument?

[TheHundredDollarHeadache]

Or do your signature performance on each instrument?

That would take up too much space on the front page, but would be great on a detail page. The Favorite or Most Skilled On instrument would just choose the instrument that shows up on the front.

[Tom Imp]

Or do your signature performance on each instrument?

I like this idea a lot.