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Lysenko
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Iceland2128 Posts
May 14 2012 19:59 GMT
#1201
On May 11 2012 08:26 Royle wrote:
Can anyone help me with this? I'm in bronze and I've won 50+ games now.. I started playing silvers last week and was winning each time.. Then I didn't play much over the weekend and all through the week I've been back to playing bronze players. Then today I played 1 Silver, beat him and then back to bronze.. Today I've played 15 games and lost 3 - beating players favourable to me.. Any help/explanation? Cheers for the help;..


What league your opponents are in isn't very informative. A person's league may not represent recent movement in their score, or you may be playing people who placed recently and aren't in the right league anyway.

However, if you're winning a great deal more than you're losing, you'll eventually be promoted. Just keep at it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
Royle
Profile Joined May 2012
United Kingdom3 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-15 22:02:25
May 15 2012 21:58 GMT
#1202
On May 15 2012 04:59 Lysenko wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 11 2012 08:26 Royle wrote:
Can anyone help me with this? I'm in bronze and I've won 50+ games now.. I started playing silvers last week and was winning each time.. Then I didn't play much over the weekend and all through the week I've been back to playing bronze players. Then today I played 1 Silver, beat him and then back to bronze.. Today I've played 15 games and lost 3 - beating players favourable to me.. Any help/explanation? Cheers for the help;..


What league your opponents are in isn't very informative. A person's league may not represent recent movement in their score, or you may be playing people who placed recently and aren't in the right league anyway.

However, if you're winning a great deal more than you're losing, you'll eventually be promoted. Just keep at it.


Ok, cheers for the reply and help.. When I wrote this my perfomance was going quite well, I was winning the majority of games I was playing and it was all going good. The last couple of days have gone downhill however, in the last 15 games I've won 3. 1 was a longer game where I made a crucial mistake but MOST were cheeses. -_- What's really annoying is that I'd got pretty good at stopping a cheese and then went on to win those games but when it was one after the other it got to me and I threw each game.. /: Luckily it's stopped and I'm back to winning the majority of games but I guess getting a promotion is out of the question!
Maggost
Profile Joined August 2011
Venezuela296 Posts
May 22 2012 14:47 GMT
#1203
Hello guys.

I have a quick question, how can i get a full reset of my 1v1 ladder? i am in Plat and i dont deserve it, i started from Bronze and i want to start of again. Plus i dont want to buy another account for that.
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Azzur
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia6267 Posts
May 22 2012 15:50 GMT
#1204
On May 22 2012 23:47 Maggost wrote:
Hello guys.

I have a quick question, how can i get a full reset of my 1v1 ladder? i am in Plat and i dont deserve it, i started from Bronze and i want to start of again. Plus i dont want to buy another account for that.

Don't play for a full season (or was it 2 seasons, I'm not sure) and your MMR resets
Maggost
Profile Joined August 2011
Venezuela296 Posts
May 22 2012 16:15 GMT
#1205
On May 23 2012 00:50 Azzur wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 22 2012 23:47 Maggost wrote:
Hello guys.

I have a quick question, how can i get a full reset of my 1v1 ladder? i am in Plat and i dont deserve it, i started from Bronze and i want to start of again. Plus i dont want to buy another account for that.

Don't play for a full season (or was it 2 seasons, I'm not sure) and your MMR resets


Allright ill will do that but, i hear that playing random teams will use my current 1v1 MMR or something like that?
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Azzur
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia6267 Posts
May 23 2012 07:28 GMT
#1206
On May 23 2012 01:15 Maggost wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 23 2012 00:50 Azzur wrote:
On May 22 2012 23:47 Maggost wrote:
Hello guys.

I have a quick question, how can i get a full reset of my 1v1 ladder? i am in Plat and i dont deserve it, i started from Bronze and i want to start of again. Plus i dont want to buy another account for that.

Don't play for a full season (or was it 2 seasons, I'm not sure) and your MMR resets


Allright ill will do that but, i hear that playing random teams will use my current 1v1 MMR or something like that?

That one I don't know
SeXyBaCk
Profile Joined January 2012
Switzerland174 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-23 08:44:03
May 23 2012 08:42 GMT
#1207
Yeah, you can't play random team league or 1v1, only fixed team games, from what i understand. That will reset your MMR. But really, just keep playing if you want to play? Ok you might lose more in Platinum and get demoted but if you want to play, frigging play. Why would you want to wait over a month?
Maggost
Profile Joined August 2011
Venezuela296 Posts
May 23 2012 13:49 GMT
#1208
On May 23 2012 17:42 SeXyBaCk wrote:Why would you want to wait over a month?


Because i want to beging at the basics.
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Lysenko
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Iceland2128 Posts
May 23 2012 17:58 GMT
#1209
On May 23 2012 22:49 Maggost wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 23 2012 17:42 SeXyBaCk wrote:Why would you want to wait over a month?


Because i want to beging at the basics.


You'll get to your appropriate level a lot faster if you just play than if you throw a bunch of placements and have to climb your way back up. Of course, you won't get easy wins.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
KazmA
Profile Joined August 2011
United States117 Posts
June 01 2012 18:37 GMT
#1210
Sweet, after reading this I now know the scientific reasons for why I cant achieve my goals QQ
"I intend to live forever, or die trying"- Groucho Marks
Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12252 Posts
June 08 2012 23:32 GMT
#1211
Added a section about "minimum division MMR", let me know if there's any confusion here.

Minimum Division MMR
The "Favored" indicator compares your adjusted points to your opponent's MMR, but there also exists a concept known as "minimum division MMR". If your opponent's MMR is below the equivalent of 88 points in your division, that opponent will -- for the purposes of point calculation -- appear to have an MMR equivalent to 88 points in your division. This means that even if your adjusted points are below 0 and your MMR is far below your division's lower bound, you will see opponents as "Even" and earn the associated number of points for those games. This allows for all players to earn points up to a certain amount and removes the frustration associated with seeing yourself as "Favored" in every match.
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SDream
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Brazil896 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-09 00:10:38
June 09 2012 00:07 GMT
#1212
That's the old idea, they discovered the cap isn't in the DMMR of the opponent, but in the points won based on your Adjusted Points, the cap seems to be 73 AP.

Reread here:

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=332391&currentpage=15#284
Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12252 Posts
June 09 2012 00:12 GMT
#1213
On June 09 2012 09:07 SDream wrote:
That's the old idea, they discovered the cap isn't in the MMR of the opponent, but in the Adjusted Points of yourself and the cap seems to be 73.

Reread here:

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=332391&currentpage=15#284


Nope that's definitely not right. Insane's progress as Astraflame proves this. He was (is) in a high-ish Bronze tier but the opponents he faced were all very low for about 30-40 games, below the 73 level of his division.
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CSmith
Profile Joined June 2012
United States10 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-09 03:56:46
June 09 2012 03:46 GMT
#1214
So, I've read TeamLiquid for some time now, but finally got something worth posting.

Playing the v1.5 Beta, and decided to do some ladder play. Won the first four matches ezpz. Next one I play I get put up against a grandmaster for the beta. He states he's a masters in Korea.

I lost this game (by no means am I a seasoned enough player to have won this game); however, he gave the nice complement, "u did as well as pros." Oh, and I earned gold league =/

Character id (beta and reg sc2) CSmith.576 (not going to play any more games on it in beta)

Score Screen:
[image loading]
Replay:
http://sc2rep.com/replays/(T)JackCoke_vs_(P)CSmith/20000
Is there a better site for replays?

Posted in this thread, because, how do I face a grandmaster in placement matches, and only end up in gold league? I'm gold league in regular SC2 as well.
LordOfDabu
Profile Blog Joined December 2003
United States394 Posts
June 09 2012 18:19 GMT
#1215
A top masters (formally GM) friend of mine just got matched up against a portrait farming bronze and got +1 for his victory. Looks like there's some bug where the very bottom can get matched against the very top. (This is on NA, not beta). I remember reading about this happening to some other GM earlier, too.
Think fast. Click faster.
oZe
Profile Joined January 2011
Sweden492 Posts
June 13 2012 19:26 GMT
#1216
I was #5 in my league with 0 bonus pool when season ended, won my placement match and got demoted. WTF... They gotta fix the league system. I threw the first game in another league just to not get demoted. Was on exactly same position in another league. Lost my placement and got to stay in my league. Kinda weird I didn't get promoted though ;-)

Another time I got demoted when I was #17 in my league, that was as bad as it could get I thought =)

Why don't they just list where you're fukin at. Like you are 50k of 1.1m. You need to advance 30k places for promotion if you fall 40k places you get demoted.

They should at the very least split the leagues into active/passive. Where you are active if you have spent your bonus pool. Bonus pool should also be prespendable or just removed. It's beyond my comprehension that nobody at blizzard has ever heard of a game called chess. I mean Glicko or ELO ratings.

To me the league system with 100 people out of whom roughly 50 ppl have 0 wins when season ends. Where anyone who grinds enough games can get the #1 spot. Is just pure crap. They might aswell remove the league rooster and just list your league. Since that's essentially what they do anyway.

ps. Give me back my losses or else!
The worst kinds of organized crime are religion & government.
Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12252 Posts
June 13 2012 19:44 GMT
#1217
On June 14 2012 04:26 oZe wrote:
I was #5 in my league with 0 bonus pool when season ended, won my placement match and got demoted. WTF... They gotta fix the league system. I threw the first game in another league just to not get demoted. Was on exactly same position in another league. Lost my placement and got to stay in my league. Kinda weird I didn't get promoted though ;-)

Another time I got demoted when I was #17 in my league, that was as bad as it could get I thought =)

Why don't they just list where you're fukin at. Like you are 50k of 1.1m. You need to advance 30k places for promotion if you fall 40k places you get demoted.

They should at the very least split the leagues into active/passive. Where you are active if you have spent your bonus pool. Bonus pool should also be prespendable or just removed. It's beyond my comprehension that nobody at blizzard has ever heard of a game called chess. I mean Glicko or ELO ratings.

To me the league system with 100 people out of whom roughly 50 ppl have 0 wins when season ends. Where anyone who grinds enough games can get the #1 spot. Is just pure crap. They might aswell remove the league rooster and just list your league. Since that's essentially what they do anyway.

ps. Give me back my losses or else!


It's not enough to have a high rank because the bonus pool generally muddies up people in these four categories:

- Skilled and Active
- Skilled and Not Active
- Unskilled and Active
- Unskilled and Not Active

This makes it possible for an unskilled but active player to be ranked above a skilled but inactive player because most players' points will come from bonus pool as time passes. The idea behind the bonus pool is to gradually and gracefully handle the varying activity levels of players rather than assign them hard labels "active" and "inactive". Additionally, there's a minimum amount of points that you will earn per game if your opponent's MMR is below a certain level. This means you can't rely on your division rank to identify whether you will be promoted, demoted, or remain in the same league. You need to investigate other elements, such as the leagues of the opponents you're commonly facing and the point gains of your recent games.
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dugokontov
Profile Joined March 2012
Bosnia-Herzegovina16 Posts
June 14 2012 20:40 GMT
#1218
Hey,

how is this possible? To have 84 points with just one win?

[image loading]
Lysenko
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Iceland2128 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-15 02:02:20
June 15 2012 02:00 GMT
#1219
On June 15 2012 05:40 dugokontov wrote:
how is this possible? To have 84 points with just one win?



From the original post:


When you are moved from one league to another, your score is reset to 73 + the amount of bonus pool you have spent so far.


So, this season this person placed into one league then got promoted or (more likely) demoted after that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
KalWarkov
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Germany4126 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-15 05:44:21
June 15 2012 05:36 GMT
#1220
a friend of mine was in gold league and he asked me to play some games on his account. since i had nothing better to do, i 20-0d on his account. After that, he played 2 games, lost both, and got promoted to platinum and then directly into diamond. how is that even possible (happened in season 6 i believe)?

also, i would love to hear some specific info about GM. i feel its kind of random wether you get in or not.
i saw ppl with mid master mmr in GM just like real pros not getting in even though there were still 100+ places left. doesnt make sense to me. i constantly play against the same opponents since season 2 and i think my mmr was quite stable throughout the whole time. i got gm in s2, 3, 6 and 7, but not in 4 and 5 - still playing the same guys, getting the same amount of points for wins etc.
its feels rly weird...
DiaBoLuS ** Sc2 - Protoss: 16x GM | Dota2 - Offlane Immortal | Wc3 - Undead decent level | Diablo nerd | Chess / Magnus fanboy | BVB | Agnostic***
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