"Usually, in most matchup charts, the character with the highest total of points is generally considered the best, and the lowest, the worst. However, an inherent flaw of this is that the numbers are not weighted by the positions of said characters. Therefore, optimally, a weighted matchup chart is preferred, where lower-tiered characters have numbers that are less valuable, while the higher-tiered characters are much more worthy of numbers."
^^What THTB wrote in the OP.
So what this means is that, right now your match-up against Raiden is more important then Jade.
So Example: (these are made up numbers)
Baraka has a 4:6 MU with Raiden and a 6:4 MU with Jade.
and
Kabal has a 6:4 MU with Raiden and a 4:6 MU with Jade.
Therefore unweighted these characters are the exact same tier. as both add up to 10.(4+6) and (6+4)
Now the Raiden match-up is more important, so lets say the weight we assign to Raiden is 3 and the weight given to the Jade match-up is 1.
When they're weighted the Raiden Matchup becomes a value of 12 for Baraka(4*3), and 18 for Kabal(6*3). And the Jade match-up values don't change as they are multiplied by 1 they remain 6 and 4 for Baraka and Kabal respectivly. Therefore Barakas SUM is 18(12 +6). And Kabal's SUM is 22(18+4)
Thus indicating Kabal is a higher tier then Baraka because he does better against a higher tier/more common/better character in Raiden.
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