Re: The Grind is Real, The Reward is Questionable?

@OldTreeCreeper if we are going to get into ranked distribution charts here is one from Apexlegendsstatus.com for S13 Ranked as of this morning.

Silver 1 and below including the new Rookie rank makes up 73.867% of the players.

Gold 4-1 (total) is at 20.553%

Platinum4 is at 4.100%

Plat 3 is at .552%

Plat 2 is at .277%

Plat 1 is at .225%

D4 is at .353%

D3

D2

D1

Master

Pred  .052%

This better explains the mixing of tiers because gold 1 and below make up 94.42% of all ranked players Plat and above make up that other 5.58%. 

The Ranked Grind is not making this better, who are the preds playing against since they do not have enough diamonds or plat players to play against? Gold players? Fair?

The split will see about 90% being returned to Bronze with the preds dropping back to D2 and still no one to play against.

This has not set up the system so that players play against others of equal rank, when you make it to Plat or above because there just is not enough players that will make those ranks to play against because EA has made the Grind supper Grindy and time consuming.

Like I said before in this thread and in other posts the changes that were made to the new ranked system were needed and in theory are good, in practice they are just to harsh. The Devs need to scale it back down a notch.

@Asmodeus566 that looks like the 95% the guy was talking about. Why do the 2 graphs from today look so different?

https://apex.tracker.gg/apex/leaderboards/stats/all/RankScore?page=1

https://apexlegendsstatus.com/game-stats/ranked-distribution

@Asmodeus566 in the alstatus graph they remove the rookie players and all that does is to increase the %'s of the other ranks, without distortiing the look of the curve in graph. So removing rookie and b1 in a tracker wouldn't have a dramatic effect either. 

Al status says there are about 2k master/predators but that is not represented their graph. This too really conflicts with atracker. 

https://apexlegendsstatus.com/points-for-predator

Atracker has me on it and the details are correct and up to date. 

The differences are a bit wierd as both of them must be working from the same released data. 

All I can think of is here must be a difference between rank score and rank distribution. 

@Asmodeus566 I just looked further at both sites and got the following info for plat 4 player numbers. There's a huge discrepancy between the 2. There is somthing seriously wrong here. 

@Asmodeus566 I just totted up the number of players in the alstatus graph and its 99,886 players in their ranked distribution l, but nothing for plat 3 and above, even though it has predators and master numbers elsewhere on its site.

I am not arguing with you that atracker is correct, given your points, but neither is alstatus as they clearly do not have all ranked players included for the season included in their graph.

The mystery deepens 😃

@OldTreeCreeper 

Well, I guess both tracker web site just do not have all the info they should have and we will never know, unless EA/Respawn actually set up their own API, which a lot of players have been asking for for years now. I think that EA/Respawn really should implement one and then the mystery would be solved.