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StatX
Canada343 Posts
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Snuggles
United States1865 Posts
I'm tired of condescending players looking down on me. I already acknowledge that I'm not a "Masters" player but my level of skill should not be immediately be thrown out of the window. | ||
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Big J
Austria16289 Posts
I'm gonna play that one placement match and regardless of how it ends, I will be Masters afterwards (or whatever league I'm in then) As there is no league identity anyways ("hey look, I'm in league 'weird name'. I'm always playing against guys of this league and try to become #1") | ||
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iAmJeffReY
United States4262 Posts
Oh lord the grueling journey I am going to undertake.... From 8-4 to 50-64 here we go!!!! edit -- gotta get over this ladder hatred. I never feel 'warm' and yet somehow I keep winning games I shouldn't. I need to play more, maybe the short season can force that. | ||
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Tatari
United States1179 Posts
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c0ldfusion
United States8293 Posts
Can anyone confirm or deny this? | ||
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AnachronisticAnarchy
United States2957 Posts
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MenSol[ZerO]
Canada1134 Posts
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sjschmidt93
United States2518 Posts
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Ben...
Canada3485 Posts
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StryderP
United States1 Post
On October 05 2011 05:01 c0ldfusion wrote: On a related note, I saw a few posts on that thread in the Blizz forum by guys claiming that if you skip a season entirely your MMR is reset, i.e. they claim that they did not play a single game in season 2 and when they resumed play during season 3, they had to redo all 5 placement matches. Can anyone confirm or deny this? This is correct. I played during season one but I did not play at all season 2. When I started to play again during season 3 I had to do all 5 placement matches. | ||
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c0ldfusion
United States8293 Posts
On October 05 2011 05:27 StryderP wrote: This is correct. I played during season one but I did not play at all season 2. When I started to play again during season 3 I had to do all 5 placement matches. Thank you! Did your placement matches feel normal, i.e. did not feel like it was leaning towards your old MMR? Now that seasons are shorter, this could be a cheap way of resetting your MMR - just don't play for 2 months. | ||
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Ignorant prodigy
United States385 Posts
Since we sort of agree MRR is a moving target, I think the qty of people actively playing the game effects which ranking certain MMR ranges fall into. This would mean the shorter season weeds out the newer players quicker.. making the variance in skill between the rankings a bit less diluted. For instance if Blizzard is trying to maintain certain percentages of its overall populace into different leagues then shorter seasons reduce the qty of inactive players accounting for those percentages. Meaning your ranking will be more accurate to your skill level amongst active players. I created a quick chart to sort of show what I’m saying. Let’s say right now there’s 50,000 people who’ve played their placement matches in S3. Lets also guesstimate Blizzard wishes to maintain 23% of that 50,000 be dedicated to Bronze (12,750 Players in bronze) If S4 comes along and only 30,000 players have played their placement matches, that 23% shows a lower number of people (7,650 in bronze) Meaning the MMR would slide accordingly. My example shows that in S3 a player with 1780 MMR is Platinum, whereas in S4 that MMR has this player in Diamond. Obviously if S4 grows to 50,000 people and the player in the example below never played a game, then he would drop back down in Platinum. ![[image loading]](http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/7968/mmre.jpg) Of course.. this is all guessing on my part.. I just sort of envision it working this way. | ||
Excalibur_Z
United States12248 Posts
On October 05 2011 06:09 Ignorant prodigy wrote: I think it may be a good thing to have shorter seasons.. this is how I envision it working.. Since we sort of agree MRR is a moving target, I think the qty of people actively playing the game effects which ranking certain MMR ranges fall into. This would mean the shorter season weeds out the newer players quicker.. making the variance in skill between the rankings a bit less diluted. For instance if Blizzard is trying to maintain certain percentages of its overall populace into different leagues then shorter seasons reduce the qty of inactive players accounting for those percentages. Meaning your ranking will be more accurate to your skill level amongst active players. I created a quick chart to sort of show what I’m saying. Let’s say right now there’s 50,000 people who’ve played their placement matches in S3. Lets also guesstimate Blizzard wishes to maintain 23% of that 50,000 be dedicated to Bronze (12,750 Players in bronze) If S4 comes along and only 30,000 players have played their placement matches, that 23% shows a lower number of people (7,650 in bronze) Meaning the MMR would slide accordingly. My example shows that in S3 a player with 1780 MMR is Platinum, whereas in S4 that MMR has this player in Diamond. Obviously if S4 grows to 50,000 people and the player in the example below never played a game, then he would drop back down in Platinum. Of course.. this is all guessing on my part.. I just sort of envision it working this way. Nah the MMR boundaries for the leagues are fixed. It's the population that varies, not the league boundaries. MMR isn't a moving target. It's more like this: ![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/5w92j.jpg) | ||
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Ignorant prodigy
United States385 Posts
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BoilOlo
United States139 Posts
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Thurokiir
United States779 Posts
Did I miss something or has the majority of sc2 players gone full retard? | ||
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MangoTango
United States3670 Posts
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c0ldfusion
United States8293 Posts
On October 05 2011 06:33 Thurokiir wrote: Why are people caring about bonus pool when the method of getting promoted is your MMR? Did I miss something or has the majority of sc2 players gone full retard? The "career" page of your profile is based on where you place within your division at the end of the season. So, at least cosmetically speaking, bonus pool does matter. | ||
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c0ldfusion
United States8293 Posts
On October 05 2011 06:16 Excalibur_Z wrote: Nah the MMR boundaries for the leagues are fixed. It's the population that varies, not the league boundaries. MMR isn't a moving target. It's more like this: Whoa, wait a minute, how would Blizzard maintain the 20/20/20/20/18/2 ratio if MMR boundaries are fixed? Edit: Nevermind, read the ladder thread again, I guess the MMR is "redistributed". | ||
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