How we use finals.id
Embark's leaderboard publishes rank scores. It does not publish who played whom. finals.id does, and that is the one thing we take from it.
What it lets us answer
Two questions, both of which the leaderboard alone cannot answer.
How many of your matches had a player who was later banned
On a profile's rank score chart, those moves are drawn striped in blue and yellow instead of plain green or red. Hovering one names the accounts and says whether each was on your team or the other one. Clicking it opens their profile.
Every match counts, whichever team they were on and whether you gained or lost rank score. The point is to show how often you run into them.
Which ban your rank score adjustment was for
Embark hands rank score back in a batch around 5 AM Eastern, and that batch refunds the accounts that left the top-10,000 board the day before. Knowing who was in the lobby is what lets an adjustment name the account it was for.
What the data is, and what we never do with it
The players in a ranked match, which team each was on, and their rank score at the time. That is all of it.
- Ranked matches only. Casual, Power Shift and Team Deathmatch are not included.
- We never build a picture of anyone from it. It marks moves on a rank score chart and explains an adjustment. That is the whole of it.
- We never say which player in a lobby has the account. A ranked bracket is up to 24 people and any of them might be reading the page. Naming the one who runs finals.id would out them to everyone they queued with, using data they shared for their own profile.
- No personal information. No email, no payment details, no Steam or console account, nothing outside the match.
How an account gets covered
You do not have to sign up for anything. Not a finals.id account, and not a FinalsTracker login. If one player in a match was running finals.id, that match is covered, and so is everyone who was in it.
A ranked bracket is up to 24 players, so one account covers the lobby for all of them. That is why a profile can show striped moves for someone who has never heard of finals.id.
Running it yourself is what covers every one of your ranked matches rather than the ones you happened to share with somebody who does.
The helper signs in with a token that expires after 24 hours. Keep it running, or open it once a day, or match data stops updating.
Get finals.id
That link goes to their download page, not to an installer. Their page carries the per-release scan results, the builds for each operating system, and the setup steps.
About finals.id
finals.id is a companion app for THE FINALS, built and run by someone else. It records the lobby of every ranked match you play and keeps your own match history. The lobby data on this site comes from them; everything else here is our own.
Lobby data provided by finals.id. FinalsTracker is not affiliated with finals.id, and finals.id is not affiliated with Embark Studios. The striped moves and everything else on this site are ours, and any mistake in them is ours too.