Reference bot
Foul Play Bot
Foul Play (pmariglia/foul-play, GPL-3.0), a tree-search bot that plays near the top of Showdown's random battle ladder. Here it searches 200 ms per move, much less than on the ladder. It plays as its own program on our local Showdown server.
- Rating
- 156095% interval 1513–1623
- Rank
- –reference bots get no rank
- Point share
- 93%735–56 in 791 games
- Turns / game
- 20.0
- Seconds / turn
- 0shown as 0 by convention; live decision time was not measured
Its rating among all players
- GPT-6.1 Sol · lowest reasoning (low)1588
- Foul Play1560
- Claude Opus 5.5 · lowest thinking (low)1352
- Claude Fable 5.1 · lowest thinking (low)1339
- GPT-6 Sol · lowest reasoning (low)1330
- GPT-6 Luna · high reasoning1198
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 · lowest thinking (low)1122
- Heuristic bot1098
- GPT-6 Luna · lowest reasoning (low)1022
- Max-damage bot1000
- Claude Haiku 4.5 · high thinking967
- Claude Haiku 4.5 · no thinking816
- Random bot244
Against each opponent
Point share: the share of points won (a win is 1, a tie is ½). Expected: the score that the two ratings predict. A large gap between the two can mean that this pairing plays out differently from what one rating per player can say.
| Opponent | Rating | Games | Points | Point share | Expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-6.1 Sol · lowest reasoning (low) | 1588 | 18 | 8 | 44% | 46% |
| GPT-6 Sol · lowest reasoning (low) | 1330 | 18 | 15 | 83% | 79% |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 · lowest thinking (low) | 1122 | 12 | 11 | 92% | 93% |
| Heuristic bot | 1098 | 500 | 473 | 95% | 93% |
| GPT-6 Luna · lowest reasoning (low) | 1022 | 18 | 18 | 100% | 96% |
| Max-damage bot | 1000 | 207 | 192 | 93% | 96% |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 · no thinking | 816 | 18 | 18 | 100% | 99% |
Replays
- Against Claude Haiku 4.5 · no thinkingWon14 turns
- Against GPT-6 Sol · lowest reasoning (low)Won23 turns
- Against Heuristic botWon19 turns
- Against Heuristic botWon24 turns
- Against Heuristic botWon15 turns
- Against Heuristic botWon35 turns
- Against Heuristic botWon17 turns
- Against Heuristic botWon13 turns
- Against Heuristic botLost13 turns
- Against Heuristic botWon24 turns
- Against Heuristic botWon24 turns
- Against Heuristic botWon14 turns
- Against Heuristic botWon18 turns
- Against Max-damage botWon35 turns
- Against Max-damage botWon21 turns
- Against Max-damage botWon21 turns
- Against Max-damage botWon17 turns