SC2 Master League Information - Page 35

On February 09 2011 18:44 escobari wrote:


What I meant was that adding leagues to top is useless, is there going to be 40k in masters in 6months or even ~10k. Becaus in beta platinium was highest, then diamond and now master, basically blizzard is just adding leagues to "cheat" peoples egos. What I what is that people would actually drop from leagues or kicked out because inactivity.

On February 10 2011 00:54 Predateur wrote:
A new master league has been created I think,
I just got promoted from 3150 diamond to 2700 master in this league :
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/419413/1/Barbu/

Seems like this divison is a bit lackluster, I don't see any name I know and i'm not a top master player for sure. Finally got a new shinny icon thought

edit : nvm I see tasteless is there hopefully he wont make the tasteless build vs me...

On February 10 2011 06:42 ChrysaliS_ wrote:


not to mention Dimaga's NA account....

On February 22 2011 02:17 Prissy wrote:

By the way: all the high level, and low diamond players that I've facing right now are evenly matched which is weird to me. no matter if it's master/ high diamond/ or low diamond.

On February 22 2011 02:22 Jerax wrote:



That's because whether you are favored or your opponent is favored has nothing to do with how high your points are, its based on whos mmr is higher.

On February 22 2011 02:22 Jerax wrote:



That's because whether you are favored or your opponent is favored has nothing to do with how high your points are, its based on whos mmr is higher.

On February 22 2011 02:32 Excalibur_Z wrote:


Well, not exactly. The Favored indicator only shows how many points you stand to earn or lose based on the match outcome, and that's determined by your points versus your opponent's MMR. If it's constantly Even, then the opponents that you're facing -- despite their points -- have MMRs that are close to your points. That's generally an indication that your points are an accurate representation of your MMR (since generally you are paired against players near your MMR) if you were to factor out bonus pool and any division offsets, particularly if it's happening that frequently.

On February 22 2011 02:39 Prissy wrote:


Ahh... nicely explained. Btw, do you know roughly how many more games I'll have to win to get promoted? (note that I've been facing Master, 3000+ diamonds now).
Also, what if I suddenly lose to a platium player right now? Will it drop my MMR by a lot? Will I have to play a lot more games to catch it back up?

Thanks.

On February 22 2011 02:43 Excalibur_Z wrote:


Well that all depends. If the Plat player has been playing against Diamond/Master-level players, then there would be no huge impact on your MMR if you were to lose because his MMR would be around where yours is now. If, on the other hand, you had been staring at Expanding Search for quite some time and the first person it could match you with was a Plat player who didn't have a track record where he should normally be matched against you, then you would probably lose quite a bit more MMR. I can't really speculate on how many more games you would need to play, most notably because it's going to depend on the quality of players you face.

On February 22 2011 03:08 confusedcrib wrote:
Just my personal experience - For awhile I was bouncing back and forth (probably 1/4 was a masters player) between diamond 2900+ players and Master 2600+ players with the masters players almost always being slightly favored. Eventually they stopped saying slightly favored, then all of a sudden the game matched me up against 900 masters and over 8 or so games crawled its way up masters league players until around 2700 ( about where I would be placed) and I won all of these matches because low masters players can be significantly < high diamond. Then I went something like 2-2 against 2700ish masters and was promoted.

On February 22 2011 21:45 Twistacles wrote:
Where can we find the total bonus pool?