[G] Comprehensive SC2 League and Ladder Guide - Page 17

Master: Top 2% of active players
Diamond: Next 18% of active players

On May 11 2011 00:33 yomi wrote:
Sorry if this has been asked before, I tried to skim for it.

The OP says:

I thought Master was top 2% of diamond, not 2% of the total player pool. What is correct?

On May 11 2011 00:33 yomi wrote:
Sorry if this has been asked before, I tried to skim for it.

The OP says:

I thought Master was top 2% of diamond, not 2% of the total player pool. What is correct?

On May 11 2011 11:52 101toss wrote:
In regards to the intercept graph in the OP:

I was smurfing on my friend's bronze league account, and after going on a 16-0 win streak, I began consistently hitting gold players. Is a larger-than-1 league differential supposed to happen?

On May 11 2011 12:59 drop271 wrote:
Really interesting stuff.

Does this mean that for SEA, which currently has the following distribution: 44.1/19.7/13.7/10.8/9.2/1.9 from Bronze to Masters, that over time approximately halve of bronze will become silver and the current silver players will trend toward Gold?

I know its a crude example, but I'm curious if I have the principle correct?

On May 11 2011 13:12 SDream wrote:


sc2ranks only shows the total number of players. The 20/20/20/etc is not meant to be total player base, but active player base, and as we have no idea what an active player is we also have no idea how far from it the servers are, were or will be, that said, we just don't know it's a wait and see.

On May 11 2011 13:18 drop271 wrote:


Thanks, thats an important clarification. However, would my point stand if we assumed* that the league distribution for active players was the same as for innactive players (thereby making SC2ranks an accurate indicator)?

*of course we all know thats a big assumption as I'm guessing Bronze players are far more likely to be inactive than masters players

On May 11 2011 14:56 Belisarius wrote:
This is a really great article.

Just out of interest, do we know how blizzard ended up handling the ladder reset with respect to MMR?

We obviously didn't see everyone earning 20+ for each win after the reset, which is what I'd expect if MMR carried over and points didn't, but at the same time it seemed to place everyone pretty accurately back where they were.

I apologise if this has been previously explained.

On May 11 2011 11:52 101toss wrote:
In regards to the intercept graph in the OP:

I was smurfing on my friend's bronze league account, and after going on a 16-0 win streak, I began consistently hitting gold players. Is a larger-than-1 league differential supposed to happen?

On February 22 2011 15:13 Excalibur_Z wrote:


Promotion
By outperforming the rest of your league, it is possible to get promoted into a higher league. If you are in Bronze but playing against Gold players, you would expect to be promoted to Gold, but that doesn't always happen immediately.

This is because the system requires a certain degree of confidence before players can be moved to a new league, otherwise they would bounce around from league to league too frequently for leagues to be meaningful. That confidence is measured in two ways:

First, the player must prove that he is capable of maintaining a certain level of skill. This is done by measuring the moving average of a player's MMR. The below image should help demonstrate. When this moving average stabilizes within the confines of a league, a player can be promoted into that league.

On May 11 2011 23:12 GWEEDZ wrote:
I have a question about Grandmaster league. You stated taht one could only be demoted if they achieved a certain bonus pool. Does this mean that even if they lose a lot of games and their MMR goes down, that they would still be in grandmaster even though they could having less than a 50% ratio against masters players?