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Prissy
Profile Joined May 2010
United States113 Posts
February 22 2011 14:57 GMT
#701
On February 22 2011 20:18 Sandermatt wrote:
From SC2ranks.com it seems that about 450 points that do not come from the bonus pool are needed to advance to masters. There are very few active players with ore than that and a lot of active players between 400 and 450. This makes it seem to me that you can take this value as an indicator on when you will advance.


What do you mean by that? Most people would need less than 450 bonus pool to get promoted to master?
Channel NYC
SDream
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Brazil896 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-22 16:18:42
February 22 2011 16:18 GMT
#702
Most people will need:

10 points for confidence.
63 points for moving average to get into the right average.
150 points for the league jump.
63 points for each tier he is bellow the first tier (S rank 63.0 = 0; A rank 63.1 = 63 etc).

The moving average is the one that is most difficult to give a number, but I think 63 is good enough for most players.

Edit: Ps: this is not a confirmed fact, just my hipothesys.
Twistacles
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Canada1327 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-25 06:04:04
February 24 2011 03:18 GMT
#703
Currently sitting at 3270 with 50 bonus pool. Facing mostly 2800~ masters right now. I'll let you know what happens.

Edit: 3.3k dia lol, this is getting silly
"If you don't give a shit which gum you buy, get stride" - Tyler
Prissy
Profile Joined May 2010
United States113 Posts
February 25 2011 16:54 GMT
#704
On February 24 2011 12:18 Twistacles wrote:
Currently sitting at 3270 with 50 bonus pool. Facing mostly 2800~ masters right now. I'll let you know what happens.

Edit: 3.3k dia lol, this is getting silly

Ya... I see a lot of people (rank 1,2,3..etc diamond) with 1000+ wins and losses and still not being able to get promote to master due to their win/loss ratio..
Channel NYC
pooopies
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada19 Posts
February 25 2011 17:49 GMT
#705
Hm, I was promoted to masters with ~600 bonus pool still, I often play 2800~ masters and am sitting at about 2300 going up
pewpew
Prissy
Profile Joined May 2010
United States113 Posts
February 25 2011 20:49 GMT
#706
On February 26 2011 02:49 pooopies wrote:
Hm, I was promoted to masters with ~600 bonus pool still, I often play 2800~ masters and am sitting at about 2300 going up


Nice.. Congrats... how many masters did you played before u got promoted? did you usually win against them?
Channel NYC
20Nation
Profile Joined February 2005
United States258 Posts
February 25 2011 21:48 GMT
#707
I got promoted to masters at 600 Diamond
Twistacles
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Canada1327 Posts
February 26 2011 02:29 GMT
#708
I just got promoted to masters, was at roughly 3330 Diamond and was bumped to 2909 Masters.
Division was UED Charlie
"If you don't give a shit which gum you buy, get stride" - Tyler
Jonas :)
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States511 Posts
February 26 2011 02:50 GMT
#709
I'm at 3100 diamond with 45 more wins than losses, surely that means masters is on the way? it's pretty annoying, though, I've been in the top 3 of my diamond division for 2 weeks or so now

I'm only playing like 2 games a day, so I guess I just have to play more until I am promoted?
Twistacles
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Canada1327 Posts
February 26 2011 05:17 GMT
#710
On February 26 2011 11:50 Jonas wrote:
I'm at 3100 diamond with 45 more wins than losses, surely that means masters is on the way? it's pretty annoying, though, I've been in the top 3 of my diamond division for 2 weeks or so now

I'm only playing like 2 games a day, so I guess I just have to play more until I am promoted?


Yup. I've been top 1-4 Diamond for about 2 weeks and it refused to promote me
"If you don't give a shit which gum you buy, get stride" - Tyler
dtz
Profile Joined September 2010
5834 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-26 07:46:02
February 26 2011 07:45 GMT
#711
So with the coming of grandmaster league, may i know what exactly determines top 200. It is said that it is just points. Is there an MMR cutoff? I have seen like the 5th player in a division get into the top 200 but not the 1-4 and i checked immediately after so it's not like he dropped afterwards or the other guy climbed.

And let's take this sea list.
http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/124093#blog

There are guys from diamond in there although sea has about 500 masters. Look at guy no 198
http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/143733/1/Saglornagain/

He is diamond and not like he was just demoted. He has been there since August and 2500 diamond. So chances are he is there because of his MMR? Because his points doesnt seem like it is high enough. And he has not played 1v1 Ladder since the list was released.

Sorry if this has been answered before. Tried my best but couldn't find it.
m00se
Profile Joined December 2010
United States41 Posts
February 26 2011 10:44 GMT
#712
http://sc2ranks.com/us/355629/moose

rank 1 diamond in my division

rank 11 diamond in NA with 3310 points...

I have a feeling I am moving up very very soon.
jstar
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada568 Posts
March 01 2011 05:10 GMT
#713
Was at 3367 then got promoted to 2949 after next win

3367 was 1st highest active Diamond in NA and 5th highest in the world in points - bonus.

Hope that helps.
SiguR
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada2039 Posts
March 01 2011 05:14 GMT
#714
I got promoted to masters at about 2000 points in diamond (about rank 18 in the division). I was relatively inactive since masters league was released with only about 100 games played total. I powered up to about 170 wins and 142 losses or something and it bumped me up to masters at about 2k points.
jstar
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada568 Posts
March 01 2011 05:19 GMT
#715
Yea its points - bonus that matters, not points
Prissy
Profile Joined May 2010
United States113 Posts
March 04 2011 15:57 GMT
#716
Excalibur_Z:
Do you think it will be harder and harder to get promoted to Master league (ie. when Master league was first introduced VS now)?
Channel NYC
Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12255 Posts
March 04 2011 17:03 GMT
#717
On March 05 2011 00:57 Prissy wrote:
Excalibur_Z:
Do you think it will be harder and harder to get promoted to Master league (ie. when Master league was first introduced VS now)?


The requirements change based on who is playing the game. The people at the top tend to play the most (they devoted enough time to become the best, why stop there) whereas people near the bottom kind of fall inactive. So, I would say that unless patch 1.2 caused a large resurgence of activity in the lower leagues that continues even today, it will probably be tougher to get into Master league now than it was on Day 1.
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Prissy
Profile Joined May 2010
United States113 Posts
March 04 2011 20:54 GMT
#718
On March 05 2011 02:03 Excalibur_Z wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 05 2011 00:57 Prissy wrote:
Excalibur_Z:
Do you think it will be harder and harder to get promoted to Master league (ie. when Master league was first introduced VS now)?


The requirements change based on who is playing the game. The people at the top tend to play the most (they devoted enough time to become the best, why stop there) whereas people near the bottom kind of fall inactive. So, I would say that unless patch 1.2 caused a large resurgence of activity in the lower leagues that continues even today, it will probably be tougher to get into Master league now than it was on Day 1.


I think you are right about that... It feels like you need more wins (against better players) to get promoted.
Channel NYC
TurpinOS
Profile Joined February 2010
Canada1223 Posts
March 04 2011 21:37 GMT
#719
I see a lot of high diamond players not getting promoted at all, in my case, Ive been sitting at around 1.3-1.5k diamond 1 month + ago when I stopped playing. I came back a couple of days ago with 2000+ bonus pool, after 4-5 games I got instantly promoted to Masters (and no, it wasnt my first win of these games, maybe the 2nd or 3rd). Im not too sure how my promotion in Masters fits in the mechanism posted in the OP.
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RukKus
Profile Joined October 2010
United States197 Posts
March 05 2011 04:17 GMT
#720
I apologize if this is a bit off topic, but it does involve my quest to get into Master League!
(For the record I have read all of your documentation on League and promotions, Excalibur, well done!)
I am a 3,100 Diamond... most likely in a very low division tier. BNet seems quite sporadic in pairing me up vs people... it ranges from 1500 Diamond to 3,200 Diamond! It has not paired me vs Master League yet ... but the "Favored"/"Slightly Favored" doesn't seem to coincide with visible points (due to MMR). Is this because it does not have enough confidence in my ability vs higher skill levels? Perhaps my sigma is in a funk and still does not know my skill level for certain .
It seems to pair me up with ppl who have on-the-rise MMR and lower point totals... My win % is not stellar, 51.5%

I'd like to think that I'm Master League quality; however, I would also like to think that I'd need to be beating Master Leaguers in order for BNet to consider me worthy. I just fear it'll never pair me vs Master Leaguers. Is it because my win % isn't high enough?
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