Will they ever fix season 18 SBMM issues?
Will we have to wait til next season or do we think super hard sweaty lobbies are now here to stay?
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i dont get all the fuss about ranked MM.
The Rank Distribution on https://apexlegendsstatus.com/game-stats/ranked-distribution looks pretty healthy in comparison to former seasons especially the last one.
This shows that the progression (not the Matchmaking!) is likely skillbased and not timebased in Ranked BR, otherwise we would see a lot more platinum and diamond players to this date !
People that dont play the meta (BR is a survival game, not a TDM shooter) wont climb that fast.
20 days into last season i was already masters and had no ambition to play the ranked mode any further, now this isnt the case anymore ...with 22 days left this split i still have reasons to grind as do most players from what i see out of the disstribution chart.
Season 18 Master Badge will be worth way more than the infamous S12 and S17 badges, maybe even worth more than other seasons too ... we will see at the end of the split what the distribution will look like. But for now, imho it looks how it should look.
@r1ggedgame Ranked MM isn't working, it is just taking longer than 2 weeks for people to get to Masters this time. According to this site, the distribution looks a little different https://apex.tracker.gg/apex/leaderboards/stats/all/RankScore?page=1
According to that 5% are already diamond. All of those that want to will get to Masters easily. I'm betting on Masters being 10% of the population by the end of the season. I have multiple friends in Diamond. They are waiting 5 to 10 minutes for games just to get current silvers as teammates. These are true silvers that die within the first encounter. Theyve showed me vids of gameplay and you can tell their enemies are not diamonds either. I see the same exact thing watching current preds run over lobbies of lesser players. That's not good MM. Not matching based on current rank is supposed to stop smurfs but it's just mixing everyone together. Pubs is currently stricter than ranked.
According to that 5% are already diamond. All of those that want to will get to Masters easily. I'm betting on Masters being 10% of the population by the end of the season. I have multiple friends in Diamond. They are waiting 5 to 10 minutes for games just to get current silvers as teammates. These are true silvers that die within the first encounter. Theyve showed me vids of gameplay and you can tell their enemies are not diamonds either. I see the same exact thing watching current preds run over lobbies of lesser players. That's not good MM. Not matching based on current rank is supposed to stop smurfs but it's just mixing everyone together. Pubs is currently stricter than ranked.
- @hayhor compared the amount of players ? tracker.gg tracks 1.8mio , legedsstatus tracks 3.1mio, thats nearly double the amount, which might result in a curve more flat as shown on tracker.gg. You always have to look at the whole data ... anyway , more heathy than before.
- @r1ggedgame It's not more healthy. We are in week 3. It is just more grind. It's still completely time based.
I do have a question tho- People talk about season 12 like it was bad. What was the difference in ranked scoring in season 12 vs 11? @hayhorno it isnt, youll see in 22 days ... the distribution will be likely looking similar to now and wont have a huge peak in masters
- @r1ggedgame Why 22 days? The season is longer than that.
- @hayhor nope there will be a split, just look at the game mode seletion
- @r1ggedgame Last season had the same timer. It is when the maps changed. They have said very specifically that there are no more resets mid season.
@hayhordoesnt matter, it wont be an easy climb for most of the S17 "Masters" bcs of the MM and not playing the meta, there wont be 1Mio Masters after this season, i bet less than 100K.
As i said, we should see way more golds, plats and diamonds by now if it would be just timebased. but what i see when looking at my random mates is a lot of S17 Masters struggeling getting out of bronze/silver, which was done in a matter of some dozent hours last season.- @r1ggedgame If you look at the site I shared there are already 130,000 players in Diamond. Those players will likely reach Masters, as will a lot of other players with close to 60 days left in the season.
you're telling me the 0,01 % in the rank distribution above diamond atm are 130K player ? doesn't look right.
maybe with all the cheaters that go banned last week and that already grinded back.@hayhori personally dont trust tracker.gg since i had quite some false results in their Overwolf overlay. apexlegendstatus is way more accurate imho. not perfect but way better in comparison
@WTF_HuitzoNot above diamond. If you add all of the buckets of diamond players you get 130k. At this point there are around 5k+ masters and preds. Both sites agree on the number of masters and preds btw.
That site says right on it, it only tracks players who check their stats. Naturally Diamond and above's are more likely to have an interest in their stats. So overall it's probably not accurate, but for the higher ranks, maybe?
- @hayhor two weeks in and not many of those 130K diamonds on tracker.gg have reached masters (6.400 overall by now) , but the amount of diamonds has reduced by 30K to under 100K and the tracker Playersbase went up from 1.8M to 4.4M Players.
Rank Distribution on both tracker sites still look perfect from a developers perspective.
And i highly doubt now that my initial guess of 100K Masters at the end of this season will be right, it will be much lower if its only 6.4K now
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