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Wr3k
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada2533 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-12 17:53:43
September 12 2010 17:52 GMT
#1
at 1909 points...

and I'm in bronze league...

A couple weeks ago I decided to pull a pennoyer and farm an icon, but unlike him I only had the patience to get the 250 win Z icon before succumbing to boredom and playing legit. I then started climbing back up the ladder, and very much to my dismay the game seems to refuse to promote me, even after a 30+ game win streak against 700+ diamond players. I've taken a couple losses now, but continue to fare quite well against 800-1000 diamond players game after game.

I know I brought this on myself but I figured some of you may find it amusing. Is there something wrong/bugged? or is this normal after intentionally tanking my account to bronze league? I've played nearly 80-90 games in my attempt to climb back up. Do I just need to lose more until I'm going 50:50? or what?

I remember reading a thread that talked about having an MMR and a sigma value that together determine the formula for promotion, so I'm guessing I need to get closer to 50% win/loss in my recent games so that my sigma value shrinks and it knows where I should be. Does that make sense?

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green.at
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Austria1459 Posts
September 12 2010 17:55 GMT
#2
wasnt it like -250 points for every league you move up? but you are the highest ranked bronze player

also there is a "bug" that only promotes you when you lose some games too.
Inputting special characters into chat should no longer cause the game to crash.
NuKedUFirst
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada3139 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-12 17:56:26
September 12 2010 17:55 GMT
#3
1909 bronze? pssh noob
http://sc2ranks.com/ranks/all/bronze/1
There are no 1909 players in bronze..
FrostedMiniWeet wrote: I like winning because it validates all the bloody time I waste playing SC2.
dudeman001
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States2412 Posts
September 12 2010 17:56 GMT
#4
Winning without any losses messes with whatever Blizzard is using for its ranking system. My guess is they implemented it to combat hackers winning every game to try and hit #1 on the ladder. You can try losing a few games, it's pretty common to get promoted after losing a random game.
Sup.
Dante08
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
Singapore4128 Posts
September 12 2010 17:56 GMT
#5
Wow 30+ game win streak that's impressive, I'm not too sure about the promotion system, it's rather weird. Just keep playing I guess and you'll get promoted eventually haha.
Wr3k
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada2533 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-12 17:57:31
September 12 2010 17:56 GMT
#6
On September 13 2010 02:55 green.at wrote:
wasnt it like -250 points for every league you move up? but you are the highest ranked bronze player

also there is a "bug" that only promotes you when you lose some games too.


I'm just being sarcastic, the highest diamond player is like 1880 or something, so I thought it would be a funny thread title. I'm amazed I managed to get this many points being being promoted. I'm guessing once I do get promoted its gonna shove me around the 800-1000 point mark, because I am consistently beating that level of player. Hopefully I don't end up with like nothing left points wise when it promotes me, that would be a pissoff.
Wr3k
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada2533 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-12 17:57:50
September 12 2010 17:57 GMT
#7
On September 13 2010 02:55 NuKedUFirst wrote:
1909 bronze? pssh noob
http://sc2ranks.com/ranks/all/bronze/1
There are no 1909 players in bronze..


It hasn't updated yet but gj. You will see me at #1 with 1878 there.
Titusmaster6
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States5937 Posts
September 12 2010 17:58 GMT
#8
I did the EXACT same thing. Don't worry, just keep playing, you will promote straight to diamond after some more games.
Shorts down shorts up, BOOM, just like that.
Wr3k
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada2533 Posts
September 12 2010 18:00 GMT
#9
On September 13 2010 02:58 Titusmaster6 wrote:
I did the EXACT same thing. Don't worry, just keep playing, you will promote straight to diamond after some more games.


lol, thats what I was thinking sometime when I went past like 1400 points. I'm starting to get worried now. I'm guessing I just need to lose more games?
palanq
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
United States761 Posts
September 12 2010 18:03 GMT
#10
I think the system has some statistical representation of your skill level, with confidence intervals and such. you spent a while convincing the system that you were a bronze leaguer, so I'm guessing it takes quite a lot of data to convince the system otherwise.
time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
MinoMino
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Norway1103 Posts
September 12 2010 18:14 GMT
#11
On September 13 2010 03:03 palanq wrote:
I think the system has some statistical representation of your skill level, with confidence intervals and such. you spent a while convincing the system that you were a bronze leaguer, so I'm guessing it takes quite a lot of data to convince the system otherwise.


Yeah, this probably. It seems like the ladder system is hesitant to promote players winning a lot. Take for example those drop hackers that had like 50-0 were still stuck in platinum. I'm guessing you just need to play enough for the system to match you up against players that are at your level so that you start losing more frequently, and you'll go straight to diamond.
Blah.
Grumbels
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Netherlands7031 Posts
September 12 2010 18:17 GMT
#12
Yeah, what might be the matter is that because of your winning streaks it doesn't know what your league should be. It seems logical that if at one point you'll have won about 50% of your latest ~~ number of games the system can then decide your ranking is a good enough approximation of your skill and take another look at league placement. Assuming it works this way, of course.
Well, now I tell you, I never seen good come o' goodness yet. Him as strikes first is my fancy; dead men don't bite; them's my views--amen, so be it.
Terrakin
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States1440 Posts
September 12 2010 18:20 GMT
#13
why on earth would you fail placements and play tons of games where you don't get better besides b.o timings??

is the false sense of satisfaction from achievements that important?
Fame was like a drug. But what was even more like a drug were the drugs.
NuKedUFirst
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada3139 Posts
September 12 2010 18:31 GMT
#14
Since you at at nearly 50% win lose the match making system thinks that is where you should be..

Lose placements -> Play until platinum -> Play with friends until it's nearly end of season -> Get in a diamond league with a bunch of bad players.. 900~ -> be #1. ^Self esteem++
FrostedMiniWeet wrote: I like winning because it validates all the bloody time I waste playing SC2.
Wr3k
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada2533 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-12 18:40:40
September 12 2010 18:39 GMT
#15
On September 13 2010 03:20 Terrakin wrote:
why on earth would you fail placements and play tons of games where you don't get better besides b.o timings??

is the false sense of satisfaction from achievements that important?


Fun. Laddering hardcore every time you play gets old after a while. I didn't fail my placements, I actually lost ~60 games in a row in order to get down to bronze from diamond lol. It got boring really fast, but it was actually kinda fun for a while trying to win with worker rushes and cheese instead of playing a 30 minute macro game every time. Plus I like having a cool icon.
TelecoM
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States10673 Posts
September 12 2010 18:43 GMT
#16
I actually lost ~60 games in a row in order to get down to bronze from diamond lol


....what? are you serious? ..what is the point .
AKA: TelecoM[WHITE] Protoss fighting
TOloseGT
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States1145 Posts
September 12 2010 18:44 GMT
#17
On September 13 2010 03:43 GGzerG wrote:
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I actually lost ~60 games in a row in order to get down to bronze from diamond lol


....what? are you serious? ..what is the point .


Cool portrait, he just said.
PokePill
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1048 Posts
September 12 2010 18:54 GMT
#18
Team portraits are better than 1v1 portraits.
MrBitter
Profile Joined January 2008
United States2940 Posts
September 12 2010 19:18 GMT
#19
lol
vnlegend
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States1389 Posts
September 12 2010 19:19 GMT
#20
Cool so you only need 60 games to get all the cool portraits. Down to Bronze I go!
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