# Sharp drop in score when submitting new code?

**URL:** <https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/sharp-drop-in-score-when-submitting-new-code/1629>\
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**Created:** [December 8, 2014, 8:21am UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/sharp-drop-in-score-when-submitting-new-code/1629 "2014-12-08T08:21:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rarst](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.codecombat.com/rarst/32/1674_2.png) [@Rarst](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/Rarst)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 8:21am UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/sharp-drop-in-score-when-submitting-new-code/1629/1 "2014-12-08T08:21:24Z")

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When I submit new code for ranking my score suddenly drops by several hundreds.

![](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/codecombat/1682/85eca35fbcaffae5.png)

Why? I am not entirely sure on ranking system used, but winning = going up, losing = going down. Why would score drop without losing?

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**Author:** ![nick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.codecombat.com/nick/32/784_2.png) [@nick](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/nick)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 2:11pm UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/sharp-drop-in-score-when-submitting-new-code/1629/2 "2014-12-08T14:11:36Z")

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Your score is made up of a strength value and a confidence value. When you resubmit, your strength value is unchanged, but your confidence is reset (since the ranking system is now very unsure how good your new code is). That’s why you see the ranking blip. It would be nice to not have it, but so far we don’t have workaround ideas for the Bayesian ranking we do: [https://github.com/codecombat/bayesian-battle](https://github.com/codecombat/bayesian-battle)

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**Author:** ![Rarst](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.codecombat.com/rarst/32/1674_2.png) [@Rarst](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/Rarst)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/sharp-drop-in-score-when-submitting-new-code/1629/3 "2014-12-08T14:17:30Z")

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Gotcha. Hadn’t seen this one before. I thought it’s one of those based on power difference (the larger difference in score with opponent the more significant win/loss).