When you are entering scores into a leaderboard you might think it’s quite straightforward and there is only one way to do it. But in fact there are a number of ways that the leaderboard can add up scores for a player. The great news is that with Leaderboarded we’ve covered all the different permutations using our ‘scoring method’ option. You can access it by adding a new metric to your leaderboard based on a Manual Entry connector.

The full list of Scoring Methods currently supported by the Manual Entry connector are as follows:

• Total will sum all scores during the scoring period (Default)
• Latest will use the most recent score entry in the current period
• Latest – ignore period will use the most recent score entry no matter when it was scored
• Difference will take the difference between the last score entry of the previous period and the most recent score entry for the current period.
• Lowest Score in Period will take only the lowest score as the entry for the period.
• Highest Score in Period will take only the highest score as the entry for the period.

Let’s look at some scores for a player and see how the Scoring Method affects the score that Leaderboarded uses for that player. Our score period is 1 week (2-8 Jan):

And here are the scores that will be given (assumes using score entries for Metric A unless otherwise stated)