I guess my guide will need some update, as my bonus pool have been increasing quite fast since some time in the weekend, if it's only caused by a time period I would estimate this at +1pt every 2 hours :O
can't wait for the damn reset...
On March 22 2010 20:47 ManiacTheZealot wrote:
I think the best question to answer here is. Does the system match you with players who are good competition for you most of the time? And if not do you think that will change when there's a larger pool of players? And further more is this the best way to ensure good matchmaking? If so the rest is just aesthetics.
The system is definately designed to match players of the same skill level, but there are a few shortcomings that really can not be addressed fully :
- it requires a large number of games to appropriately assess your level (not talking about leagues here)
- it assumes that the skills of a person are constant and often the outcome of a game does not depend only on skill, or if you wish : we're not always playing our A-game (to use a poker term)
In any case, I see your point, the objective is not really to find out how you get points or how many, but rather to find out how the system works which would allow us to answer such questions as those you posed => the sad reality is that we could never have full knowledge of the intricacies of the current system (as Blizzard wants to maintain secrecy over this) and the best we can do is guesstimate its functioning, and this is what I'm doing
On March 23 2010 03:25 iCCup.Raelcun wrote:
One important thing is if you're promoted your ELO resets and you get your ENTIRE bonus pool back which is rrather amazing as now I'm sitting in a new league with nearly 600 bonus points available.
well, since you get a huge drop in rating (it's not ELO btw, it's a different system) after being moved up a league, it just makes sense to restart your bonus pool - the idea is that you reach your accurate rating after a decent number of games, not after hundreds of games!
On March 23 2010 06:37 Dionyseus wrote:Only if you're playing legitimate Gold skilled players. If you're playing top platinums and you still have a 55% winrate then it's not working good, it should place you in the Platinum league.
but you know very well that if this is the case, it's only a matter of time before he gets moved up
and since he's 4th, it's more than likely that he's not playing top platinum players as these would have a much higher "x" value than him, which means he would get lots of points for every win and very few for every loss, if he has a ~50% win rate against such players, that would give him somewhere around +4-6pts for every 2 games on average - at least for a while - and he would clearly be ranked 1st unless he has played few games
...and if he played few games, well, we can't blame the system much for starting him in the gold league and waiting a bit to promote him to plat...
EPT
