Season 3 coming to an end... - Page 13

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?

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.

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.

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?

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: