Poll: Bonus pool should be removed - Page 8

Mendelfist

Sweden356 Posts

June 30 2011 05:53 GMT

#141

On June 30 2011 14:33 YarNhoj wrote:
@Mendelfist If I can only play one night a week but I am as good as someone who plays five days a week then why shouldn't my points be close to his?

I agree. Without bonus pool that would be the case. But the bonus pool system forces you to play on average 14 games per week to "keep up".

The bonus pool allows me to "make up" for not being able to play more than 1 day a week.

No it does not, as I and others repeatedly have told you. It's the other way around. Bonus pool causes inflation and forces you to play a lot to keep up. Without bonus pool there would be no inflation.

harhar!

Germany190 Posts

June 30 2011 05:56 GMT

#142

yes kill the bonus pool. i want comparable data over time. they should just include a normal elo chesslike rating. and who cares about points so much, that hed play the game even though it makes no fun. these ppl would play just as much wo bonus.

also its kinda unfair that you have to play much to hold your rank.

NoodleFish

South Africa198 Posts

June 30 2011 07:02 GMT

#143

I personally like the bonus pool. Sure, people can be gimmicky and wait til they have 1000 bp (lol! Right now I'm on 500 haha) and zoom to the top of their league... Right?
But think about it, if you accumulate 90 bp a week, that means you aren't really playing too much. Sure, some people will practise in customs and xvx games, but are the majority of people who are accumulating points actually getting better? I know for a fact that I'm not. And I'm not just accumulating just cos I can, but cos of time constraints.

So in the end, bonus pool keeps me in my top 8 and hopefully I'll get the top 8 icon at the end of the season :D

svefnleysi

Iceland623 Posts

June 30 2011 07:08 GMT

#144

If they removed bonus pool, 50% of players would have negative scores. With the way the matchmaking system works, everyone, excluding high masters ranked players, would be hovering around zero indefinitely.

Tofugrinder

Austria899 Posts

June 30 2011 07:11 GMT

#145

they shouldn't just remove the bonus pool, they should just show me my real mmr. When I suck I want to know and not let the ladder betray me

Mendelfist

Sweden356 Posts

June 30 2011 07:18 GMT

#146

On June 30 2011 16:08 svefnleysi wrote:
If they removed bonus pool, 50% of players would have negative scores. With the way the matchmaking system works, everyone, excluding high masters ranked players, would be hovering around zero indefinitely.

No, they would not. Without bonus pool your points converge to your MMR, if we disregard league and division offsets.

SDream

Brazil896 Posts

June 30 2011 07:25 GMT

#147

Bonus pool is a cool idea, but 90 points per week is too much for me to spend and I think that regions like Latin America (LA) region can't handle the 90 weekly bonus points, because the culture there is playing less than in NA, KR regions.

SC.Shifty

Canada135 Posts

June 30 2011 08:00 GMT

#148

I remember when bonus points/points mattered, oh wait....

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