AOE2Lobby

LR is an acronym for "Lobby Rating". It is essentially the same idea as the old "unranked" elo that used to be shown on aoe2.net but the calculation is likely different. I chose to call it Lobby Rating instead of unranked elo because I am not 100% certain about the calculation and I did not want to imply it was the same as the old unranked elo if it is not. I think it is actually closer to the current team game elo calculation.

Eventually the plan is to replace the current LR stat with my own elo system based on the old voobly calculation method. You can see the different calculation methods explained here: https://www.twestaoe.net/tools/elocalculator.

In my opinion the current LR stat is most accurate when used for evaluating mid-elo team game players, especially those that play many more lobby games than they do ranked. At low skill levels and the highest skill levels the LR stat becomes pretty useless with how it is calculated right now and how those players utilize the lobby system differently than the average player. Because of this I think the current LR stat is best used to help balance lobby team games in that mid-elo level or, if nothing else, to roughly evaluate a player's skill if they have no ranked history.

LR can also be used as a partial anti-smurf tool by new players to make sure that someone hosting a "noobs only" game is indeed somewhat a noob themselves. For example someone with a 1600+ LR hosting a "noob" lobby usually has an extraordinarily high win percentage as well.

If you are interested in trying to balance teams using LR, even if it is not perfect, the website can do the team split calculation for you automatically, just click the Balance button as show in the screenshot and a new table box will open with the splits and a clipboard link so you can copy and paste team splits directly into the lobby chat.