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Kyamo
Profile Joined March 2011
Canada129 Posts
March 18 2011 21:52 GMT
#961
I finally got a 12/12 match.


Opponent:
adjusted points before game = -26
points change for game = -12
Plat Vulture Tango

Me:
adjusted points before game = 165
points change for game = +12
Gold Meinhoff Whiskey

Difference = 165 - (-26) = 191

(The differences from my previous closest games (11-12 games) were 180 and 189, also with plat opponents. Very close values, I guess I am playing a lot of guys in the same division tier.)
SDream
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Brazil896 Posts
March 18 2011 22:18 GMT
#962
On March 19 2011 06:52 Kyamo wrote:
I finally got a 12/12 match.


Opponent:
adjusted points before game = -26
points change for game = -12
Plat Vulture Tango

Me:
adjusted points before game = 165
points change for game = +12
Gold Meinhoff Whiskey

Difference = 165 - (-26) = 191

(The differences from my previous closest games (11-12 games) were 180 and 189, also with plat opponents. Very close values, I guess I am playing a lot of guys in the same division tier.)


Yeap, most platinum players are on A rank, for the same reason most diamond players are on E ranks. So I think we have a good chance to guess it right if we say these plat are A, and you're 3 tiers lower that, so you are probaly on an A rank Gold (remember: there are only 2 tiers on gold, the S and the A, 3 on platinum S-B).

Starting the new season it won't be true anymore, so enjoy the knowleadge for the time being :D

(that also mean you already have platinum (rank B) skill, so when the ladder reset you might start at platinum already)
Kyamo
Profile Joined March 2011
Canada129 Posts
March 19 2011 13:52 GMT
#963
On March 19 2011 07:18 SDream wrote:

Yeap, most platinum players are on A rank, for the same reason most diamond players are on E ranks.



What's that reason? And how do we know what tier most players in a league are in?
SDream
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Brazil896 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-19 14:17:28
March 19 2011 14:16 GMT
#964
On March 19 2011 22:52 Kyamo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 19 2011 07:18 SDream wrote:

Yeap, most platinum players are on A rank, for the same reason most diamond players are on E ranks.



What's that reason? And how do we know what tier most players in a league are in?


Moving average is the reason. I know because I know 100% of the diamond and platinum divisions tiers on LA server, and I confirmed this phenomenum on NA server diamond (a new E rank diamond division pops up every day, while other tiers takes a lot of time to be born, proving E rank to be the popular tier).

It's a tendency from the system. With the reset I think it will ignore moving average and promote by MMR alone, so it won't be true anymore...
DiDigital
Profile Joined February 2011
75 Posts
March 22 2011 02:24 GMT
#965
On March 19 2011 23:16 SDream wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 19 2011 22:52 Kyamo wrote:
On March 19 2011 07:18 SDream wrote:

Yeap, most platinum players are on A rank, for the same reason most diamond players are on E ranks.



What's that reason? And how do we know what tier most players in a league are in?


Moving average is the reason. I know because I know 100% of the diamond and platinum divisions tiers on LA server, and I confirmed this phenomenum on NA server diamond (a new E rank diamond division pops up every day, while other tiers takes a lot of time to be born, proving E rank to be the popular tier).

It's a tendency from the system. With the reset I think it will ignore moving average and promote by MMR alone, so it won't be true anymore...


That must be a result of the confidence level required of the moving average in order to be promoted. Theoretically the most populated tiers should be the ones closest to mid gold league (so lower diamond / plat divisions and higher silver / bronze divisions). More players being promoted to E rank Diamond rather than F rank implies that the average confidence level is about the size of the F rank tier. If it were larger than more players would be promoted to D rank divisions, were it smaller then more would be in F rank.
SovSov
Profile Joined September 2010
United States755 Posts
March 28 2011 01:33 GMT
#966
Question:

For Master Players.. couldn't they throw games right now and get their MMR lower, then when the ladder resets they are able to grind up points easier off of lesser skilled opponents?
SDream
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Brazil896 Posts
March 28 2011 02:24 GMT
#967
On March 28 2011 10:33 SovSov wrote:
Question:

For Master Players.. couldn't they throw games right now and get their MMR lower, then when the ladder resets they are able to grind up points easier off of lesser skilled opponents?


No, it won't work. The higher your MMR, the faster will get your points back (or should I say, the higher the MMR of your opponents, but you'll need to have a high MMR yourself to be matched against them). Specially if you aim Grandmaster league, cause it'll select players by their MMR moving average and not points (as every other league).
Evantas
Profile Joined December 2010
Singapore61 Posts
March 28 2011 04:26 GMT
#968
I wonder if they compensate for different ability in different race matchups. I lose a lot more in TvP(20%ish wins) than TvT (70%) and TvZ(60%). I blame me not moving up in league because of how I suck at TvP, likely theres a huge variance as I can win diamond terrans but lose to silver toss.
Naohia
Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12240 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-29 03:39:33
March 29 2011 00:49 GMT
#969
This is a little tougher without SC2Ranks because for some reason some people (including the SC2r server) can't see the Season 2 web profiles, but here's what I've managed to find so far on SEA:

- Division tiers still exist (I've found 2 for diamond so far)
- Division names were re-randomized so all our current info (except probably the offsets) is out of date

South East Asia Server
1v1 Master
Brood Lord Echo (Master) http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/44064/1/NEOindy/ladder/4178#current-rank

1v1 Diamond
Lenassa November (currently 11 players) http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/7195/1/SayfT/ladder/4193#current-rank
Jorgensen Mars (currently 12 players) http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/185036/1/sMoAquarius/ladder/4209#current-rank
Aiur Iota (currently 17 players) http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/14607/1/fur/ladder/4165#current-rank
Ursa Gravity (currently 28 players) http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/148129/1/FaDeBlitz/ladder/4198#current-rank
Urun Kappa (currently 32 players) http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/18154/1/Vybre/ladder/4204#current-rank
DuGalle Uncle (currently 33 players) http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/291991/1/Luke/ladder/4164#current-rank
Swann Bravo (currently 41 players) http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/214283/1/Hirako/ladder/4180#current-rank

1v1 Platinum
Viking Charlie (52 players) http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/22997/1/deshface/ladder/4160#current-rank
Reaper Rho (66 players) http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/137527/1/SundeR/ladder/4161#current-rank

1v1 Gold
Tosh Sigma (88 players) http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/82995/1/Champ/ladder/4167#current-rank

1v1 Silver
Daggoth Oscar (81 players) http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/249402/1/XelPhantom/ladder/4199#current-rank

1v1 Bronze
Halcyon Omicron (100 players, no data) http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/25962/1/Epimetheus/ladder/4163#current-rank

2v2 Diamond (Random)
Lenassa November http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/207820/1/ProAnnn/ladder/4241#current-rank
DuGalle Uncle http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/12510/1/NoobStyles/ladder/4220#current-rank

2v2 Platinum (Random)
Nexus Psi http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/288490/1/MiniworM/ladder/4247#current-rank

2v2 Gold
Tosh Sigma http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/205711/1/FreshKeeper/ladder/4236#current-rank

2v2 Gold (Random)
Kerrigan Pepper http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/11457/1/Rowstar/ladder/4176#current-rank

2v2 Silver (Random)
Victory Tango http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/82995/1/Champ/ladder/4221#current-rank

3v3 Diamond (Random)
Lenassa November http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/74353/1/DMAN/ladder/4259#current-rank

3v3 Silver (Random)
Victory Tango http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/82995/1/Champ/ladder/4211#current-rank

4v4 Platinum (Random)
Viking Charlie http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/292328/1/snow/ladder/4186#current-rank
Reaper Rho http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/82995/1/Champ/ladder/4189#current-rank
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shannn
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Netherlands2891 Posts
March 29 2011 00:57 GMT
#970
I can't see the player list lol. When I click on the links I don't see a ladder with players.
That's not important anyways. What I'm curious about is how do you know diamond x is a tier S / A etc division? Is this because there are 2 divisions and they're not filled yet so it concludes to 2 different tiers of Diamond?

If it's like that then you should be able to gather info about all tiers of the new Diamond divisions don't you?
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewpost.php?post_id=6321864 Epic post.
Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12240 Posts
March 29 2011 01:59 GMT
#971
On March 29 2011 09:57 shannn wrote:
I can't see the player list lol. When I click on the links I don't see a ladder with players.
That's not important anyways. What I'm curious about is how do you know diamond x is a tier S / A etc division? Is this because there are 2 divisions and they're not filled yet so it concludes to 2 different tiers of Diamond?

If it's like that then you should be able to gather info about all tiers of the new Diamond divisions don't you?


We need to have a universal listing where division offsets are excluded, like the weekly Top 200 list (or failing that, lots and lots of data and match histories). So we don't know yet which tier is which, we just know that they exist.
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LetoAtreides82
Profile Joined January 2011
United States1188 Posts
March 29 2011 02:31 GMT
#972
Did the start of season 2 in SEA begin at midnight in their timezone?
The spice must flow
Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12240 Posts
March 29 2011 02:44 GMT
#973
On March 29 2011 11:31 LetoAtreides82 wrote:
Did the start of season 2 in SEA begin at midnight in their timezone?


The current max bonus pool is 3 right now, which would put the season start time somewhere around 7am local time.
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ChrysaliS_
Profile Joined January 2011
United States261 Posts
March 29 2011 02:56 GMT
#974
On March 28 2011 10:33 SovSov wrote:
Question:

For Master Players.. couldn't they throw games right now and get their MMR lower, then when the ladder resets they are able to grind up points easier off of lesser skilled opponents?


Only reason you would want to do this would be to give yourself a win ratio buffer. Won't actually help you gain points in the long run.
Chrysalis.145
Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12240 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-29 05:31:47
March 29 2011 03:15 GMT
#975
Some Notes:

Swann Bravo may be the lowest tier. I'm seeing a lot of former Plat players who are in this division.

Okay SC2Ranks can finally see all these divisions and it's parsing them now. Here's how it breaks down:

Bronze: 7 tiers (confirmed)
Silver: 3 tiers (confirmed)
Gold: 2 tiers (confirmed)
Platinum: 3 tiers (confirmed)
Diamond: 7 tiers (confirmed)
Master: 1 tier (of course)

Nevermind only 5 Bronze tiers so far, SC2R was out of date on 2 of them.

Okay could be 6 tiers, Overmind Hawk looks like a new one.

Nope 7 tiers confirmed from Random Team info. Everything's verified.
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Barbiero
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Brazil5259 Posts
March 29 2011 14:56 GMT
#976
By the way, I just thought this might help.

I just got promoted into Diamond from Platinum, with 74 points after promotion(ie. 73 + 1 bonus).
My Diamond division is Artika Sigma, and has 82 players as of now(03-29 07:48 PST)

I had(or should have) 54 points before promotion. I won three games after placement and all of them gave me +18 points, and all of my oponents were Diamond players. On a note, the last oponent gave me 17+1, due to bonus pool, but I'm not 100% sure because I was promoted on that game. The server registered +18 and there was 1 BP at the time, so I assume its 17+1.


If you need, my season 1 snapshot:
Division Azimar Foxtrot, 1974 points and 1334 unspent bonus pool.
(I'm not sure if the website would wipe out the bonus pool from season 1 as the game does, so I'll post it this way).

I just thought this may help someone into discovering these tiers.
♥ The world needs more hearts! ♥
SDream
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Brazil896 Posts
March 29 2011 15:00 GMT
#977
Congratulations Zephirdd! It confirms you were on an S ranked platinum before getting the promotion (lol, do you remember the name? XD), but now I wonder if you are on a F or E ranked diamond.

Well, thanks for the information
Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
March 29 2011 16:33 GMT
#978
Excalibur told me this wasn't anything that hasn't been seen before, but I thought it was worth posting and getting some ideas about it:

[image loading]

Any explanation as to why it shits out a decimal?
https://twitter.com/#!/TorteDeLini (@TorteDeLini)
Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12240 Posts
March 29 2011 16:45 GMT
#979
So yeah this is definitely an anomaly, not something that's common but also not unheard of. I think we've seen this only a couple of times previously. The decimal is not actually a decimal, the e in the number stands for exponent 10. So what could say 3.359e-09 would actually be 3,359,295,195,749 or whatever.
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Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
March 29 2011 16:47 GMT
#980
Why does it occur?
https://twitter.com/#!/TorteDeLini (@TorteDeLini)
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