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habbey
Profile Joined September 2010
United States405 Posts
February 10 2011 02:39 GMT
#761
This my brother's account and he stopped playing a while ago but according to your formula michael he should qualify for gold quite easily. Got him to play a couple and he didn't get promoted. Is this simply because his unspent is too high and thus making it too difficult to estimate accurately?

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/2016994/1/Nick/
SDream
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Brazil896 Posts
February 10 2011 02:48 GMT
#762
On February 10 2011 11:39 habbey wrote:
This my brother's account and he stopped playing a while ago but according to your formula michael he should qualify for gold quite easily. Got him to play a couple and he didn't get promoted. Is this simply because his unspent is too high and thus making it too difficult to estimate accurately?

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/2016994/1/Nick/


He has too many bonus pool, he is obviously a INACTIVE player.

It has been confirmed by Blizzard (I think...) that inactive players need to break the boundaries further to get promoted.

random user
Profile Joined December 2010
85 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-10 03:05:58
February 10 2011 03:05 GMT
#763
On February 10 2011 10:38 michaelhasanalias wrote:


I'm just curious, but how did you get them? Just personal digging around? What were their bonus pools at the time, 0?


Did you find a way to track promotion somehow?


In order for me at least to find promotion data helpful, I think I would need:

Rank Points, Bonus Pool, Division Name before and after promotion, and the TIME of promotion, so as to calculate the total bonus pool.

This will allow me to estimate the rank point differentials for players with unspent bonus pools and then compare those with other players in their divisions.


Actually I'm just going to start a data collection thread, and hopefully it will gain some support.


I have a script that I run to spider a couple pages of sc2ranks and a lot of battle.net. (Note to Shadowed: the amount of traffic on your site should be insignificant... I hope you don't mind.)

It doesn't capture the exact time of the promotion, but there should be enough data there to support your formula, if it is correct. Anyone with above about 225 wins or so should have all their bonus pool spent, barring binge playing early and then a long lapse. I did include a couple with lower numbers of wins, but if you click on the profile you should be able to see their bonus pool if you so choose to.

I'm not sure why you need to know division name, especially since if there are offsets in gold/plat, I don't think there is a published list of which divisions are which offset?

Here's some more gold data from the last time I checked. Again, these are all gold players who got promoted to plat:


+ Show Spoiler +

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/2157786/1/Doozy/
~8 hrs ago snapshot: 2,926 pts 254 - 192 w/l
recent snapshot: 255 - 197 w/l

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/275113/1/Ender/
~8 hrs ago snapshot: 2,861 pts 633 - 625 w/l
recent snapshot: 641 - 633 w/l

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/1609307/1/mGxLegioN/
~8 hrs ago snapshot: 2,776 pts 284 - 253 w/l
recent snapshot: 294 - 262 w/l

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/2169300/1/Oelsner/
~8 hrs ago snapshot: 2,776 pts 201 - 178 w/l
recent snapshot: 203 - 179 w/l

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/508374/1/iNRage/
~8 hrs ago snapshot: 2,758 pts 344 - 356 w/l
recent snapshot: 365 - 364 w/l

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/500901/1/windsofwar/
~8 hrs ago snapshot: 2,730 pts 495 - 496 w/l
recent snapshot: 503 - 500 w/l


Again, though, I'm more interested in whether your formula can show why the people who are still active but DIDN'T get promoted (as posted above) more than whether it can show that the people who promoted did.
LetoAtreides82
Profile Joined January 2011
United States1188 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-10 03:29:47
February 10 2011 03:13 GMT
#764
If it's any interest to anyone I just got repromoted to Diamond with my zerg account. I was around 2700 in the platinum league Ramsey Gravity with around 200 bonus pool (and about 1000 rating points higher than 2nd place), with a rec of 292-275 the game before the promotion.

When I got repromoted to Diamond I was placed in Kerrigan Lima with 2496 points and 207 bonus pool.

my zerg account:
http://www.sc2ranks.com/us/1997354/Omnius
The spice must flow
michaelhasanalias
Profile Joined May 2010
Korea (South)1231 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-12 10:51:23
February 10 2011 03:54 GMT
#765
KR NsPMichael.805 | AM Michael.2640 | SEA Michael.523 | 엔에스피 New Star Players
ch33psh33p
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
7650 Posts
February 10 2011 03:58 GMT
#766
On February 10 2011 12:54 michaelhasanalias wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 10 2011 07:36 SDream wrote:
Also, I am pretty sure this US division is F Rank:

http://www.sc2ranks.com/div/59023/division-ladranix-romeo



I went to start analyzing this, but I came across something strange:

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/2377478/1/LoveYY/ladder/26648#current-rank

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/2231264/1/waterberry/ladder/26648#current-rank

All the wins/losses are hte same but the usernames are different.


Thats a glitch that happens sometimes, just refresh and the website will fix itself.
secret - never again
michaelhasanalias
Profile Joined May 2010
Korea (South)1231 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-12 10:51:39
February 10 2011 04:01 GMT
#767
KR NsPMichael.805 | AM Michael.2640 | SEA Michael.523 | 엔에스피 New Star Players
michaelhasanalias
Profile Joined May 2010
Korea (South)1231 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-12 10:51:31
February 10 2011 04:45 GMT
#768
KR NsPMichael.805 | AM Michael.2640 | SEA Michael.523 | 엔에스피 New Star Players
random user
Profile Joined December 2010
85 Posts
February 10 2011 04:57 GMT
#769
I know you posted it before, but could you, for the sake of completeness and since we talked about some stuff and I don't know what you really still need, let me know what information would help you in regards to people who haven't been promoted?

I'll modify my script to pick up these elements as well, if I can. Bonus pool is something I can pick up, but it requires an extra page crawl for each person, so I haven't been doing it, but at least on a temporary basis I'll add it in.
michaelhasanalias
Profile Joined May 2010
Korea (South)1231 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-12 10:51:48
February 10 2011 05:12 GMT
#770
KR NsPMichael.805 | AM Michael.2640 | SEA Michael.523 | 엔에스피 New Star Players
michaelhasanalias
Profile Joined May 2010
Korea (South)1231 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-12 10:51:55
February 10 2011 05:49 GMT
#771
KR NsPMichael.805 | AM Michael.2640 | SEA Michael.523 | 엔에스피 New Star Players
Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12262 Posts
February 10 2011 06:18 GMT
#772
Again, moving average is not a "theory", it is a fact. That comes from the senior designer himself.

Are you sure your considering bonus pool as a condition is not simply an effect of players with low bonus pool more closely resembling their MMR (as it means they've played many games and therefore spent most of their bonus pool in the process)?

I still don't believe win ratio has anything to do with it.
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Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12262 Posts
February 10 2011 06:21 GMT
#773
On February 10 2011 11:48 SDream wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 10 2011 11:39 habbey wrote:
This my brother's account and he stopped playing a while ago but according to your formula michael he should qualify for gold quite easily. Got him to play a couple and he didn't get promoted. Is this simply because his unspent is too high and thus making it too difficult to estimate accurately?

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/2016994/1/Nick/


He has too many bonus pool, he is obviously a INACTIVE player.

It has been confirmed by Blizzard (I think...) that inactive players need to break the boundaries further to get promoted.



Hm I don't remember hearing that anywhere. In fact, the only thing I heard is that your promotion eligibility is primarily determined by your performance against the active population.
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sunsetkid
Profile Joined December 2010
6 Posts
February 10 2011 06:52 GMT
#774
I think the win ratio has nothing to do with MMR or projected points after accounting for bonus pool. more often than not, people with low bonus pools tend to have very good win ratios when they are just promoted to diamond. this is because you spent time playing less skilled players. but when you are around a decent master league player, your win ratio is usually just above 50%---simply because everyone you play is good!

michaelhasanalias
Profile Joined May 2010
Korea (South)1231 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-12 10:52:03
February 10 2011 07:12 GMT
#775
KR NsPMichael.805 | AM Michael.2640 | SEA Michael.523 | 엔에스피 New Star Players
SDream
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Brazil896 Posts
February 10 2011 07:34 GMT
#776
On February 10 2011 15:21 Excalibur_Z wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 10 2011 11:48 SDream wrote:
On February 10 2011 11:39 habbey wrote:
This my brother's account and he stopped playing a while ago but according to your formula michael he should qualify for gold quite easily. Got him to play a couple and he didn't get promoted. Is this simply because his unspent is too high and thus making it too difficult to estimate accurately?

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/2016994/1/Nick/


He has too many bonus pool, he is obviously a INACTIVE player.

It has been confirmed by Blizzard (I think...) that inactive players need to break the boundaries further to get promoted.



Hm I don't remember hearing that anywhere. In fact, the only thing I heard is that your promotion eligibility is primarily determined by your performance against the active population.


Then they didn't said

Now that think of it, almost 100% of active platinum players move to a E Rank diamond, and almost 100% of players on F Rank diamond are inactive on the date of promotion, so it seems to be actually the other way around lol. Considering that Division alocation has to do with MMR.
duckamuck
Profile Joined January 2011
Norway12 Posts
February 10 2011 07:42 GMT
#777
do you know the memory of the MA, is it MA(1), MA(2),....?
michaelhasanalias
Profile Joined May 2010
Korea (South)1231 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-12 10:52:12
February 10 2011 11:04 GMT
#778
KR NsPMichael.805 | AM Michael.2640 | SEA Michael.523 | 엔에스피 New Star Players
Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12262 Posts
February 10 2011 17:46 GMT
#779
Sigma is a representation of your volatility against various ranges of players, so it's not static. A highly volatile player may have a range of +/- spanning many leagues while a more stable player may have a range that's considerably smaller, even if both those players had identical MMRs.

Another thing that concerns me about the seemingly successful outcomes you've had with your formula is that they don't take into account the possible tiers of the opponent sub-Diamond (where we don't know the offsets). In the example you gave, a Plat player supposedly had 1520 MMR, but how do you determine this given that Plat may have at least 2 or at most 3 tiers with unknown offsets? If the tiers are the same as Diamond, that's potentially a point shift of 126 or 189 which would drastically affect the calculation.

As for determining MMR based on the change in points for a game, that too has a lot of unknowns. We know that points earned are based upon opponent MMR versus your adjusted rating (displayed points - spent bonus pool - division offset). We know that 12 points earned means an opponent MMR roughly close to your adjusted rating. The higher the points earned, the higher the opponent's MMR as compared to your adjusted rating. The lower the points earned, the lower the opponent's MMR as compared to your adjusted rating. One thing we don't know is whether this range is fixed (say +/- 10 MMR? 20? 50? for a 12-point game) or dynamic based upon your sigma (maybe a 12-point game represents opponent MMRs in the 45-55% range of your adjusted rating).
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SDream
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Brazil896 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-10 19:14:39
February 10 2011 19:13 GMT
#780
New hipothesys:

Silver, gold and platinum have 2 tiers.

The tier "S" is where most of players are, specially the active ones that struggle to get their promotion. 90% of divisions should be here.

The tier "A" is where most new players that get placed directly on that league are or people that are promoted "too soon". 10% of the divisions should be here.

Time will tell if I am right, cause I think that if we're luck I'll be able to confirm it in some months, so the reset must wait a little ^^'
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