US Platinum Ranks: Mar 10, 2010

I appreciate you posting these since I'm not in beta to see them so I'll take you up on comparing the players you had last week with this week.

(My first post here so didn't know how to make a table look nice so its in narrative form)

1. Oversky went 86-46 (65%) this week. This is 8% lower than their overall win rate going into this week (73%). New overall win rate: 71%

2. Smuft went 110-43 (72%) this week. This is 9% lower than their overall win rate going into this week (81%). new overall win rate: 78%

3. Lorelei went 75-49 (60%) this week. This is 13% lower than their overall win rate going into this week (73%). New overall win rate: 67%

4. CowGoMoo went 7-2 (77%) this week. This is 15% lower than their overall win rate going into this week (92%). New overall win rate: 91%

5. vOidwards went 37-26 (62%) this week. This is 9% lower than their overall win rate going into this week (71%). New overall win rate: 70%

6. CrunCher went 43-31 (58%) this week. This is 13% lwoer than their overall win rate going into this week (71%). new overall win rate: 68%

7. philanderer went 24-14 (63%) this week. This is 6% lower than their overall win rate going into this week (69%). New overall win rate: 68%

8. Real went 18-16 (53%) this week. This is 10% lower than their overall win rate going into this week (63%). New overall win rate: 56%

9. hotsauce went 110-100 (52%) this week. This is 6% lower than their overall win rate going into this week (58%). New overall win rate: 56%

10. Dev went 36-31 (54%) this week. This is 4% lower than their overall win rate going into this week (58%). new overall win rate is 57%


I only compared people who were number 1 last week as I don't have the data on what the new number 1s were last week.



Some other observations.


1. Average decline in this weeks records with their overall win percentage from all games before this week was 9.3%

Analysis: The field is tightening quickly. Not a single player who was the top of a platinum leage last week was able to maintain their same win percentage. This clearly shows that the field as a whole is getting better.

2. Overall win rates of these 10 players dropped an average of 2.7% The large dispartiy between this and the weekly declind of 9.3% suggests to me that the game is tightening faster than the win loss rates indicate as its the volume of games these players played early on that really helps keep their records looking so incredible.

3. The total record of these players this week was 546-358 (60%).