Finally a new K1 Leader

Good to see the matchmaking algorithms working as coded. It's not a bug, it's a feature. :D

That player knows how to pick his gaming chairs. No 1 in Kyber 1 with 2 GLs and no Executor, Profundity or Leviathan. Awesome

"Rath_Tarr;c-2451867" wrote:
Good to see the matchmaking algorithms working as coded. It's not a bug, it's a feature. :D

I don’t think you game blame matchmaking for people cheating.

"Stokat;c-2451873" wrote:

"Rath_Tarr;c-2451867" wrote:
Good to see the matchmaking algorithms working as coded. It's not a bug, it's a feature. :D

I don’t think you game blame matchmaking for people cheating.

Is it cheating though? Or just evidence that the squish algorithm isn’t founded on the most rigorous maths?

It may be nothing to do with cheating. Lucky streaks in matchmaking in lower leagues can give huge rating which impossible to get in really competitive environment like Kyber, especially combined with new "squish" algorithm which, in fact, add pretty big amount of points to players in lower leagues.

"Wed_Santa;c-2451874" wrote:

"Stokat;c-2451873" wrote:

"Rath_Tarr;c-2451867" wrote:
Good to see the matchmaking algorithms working as coded. It's not a bug, it's a feature. :D

I don’t think you game blame matchmaking for people cheating.

Is it cheating though? Or just evidence that the squish algorithm isn’t founded on the most rigorous maths?

True could well be. A (very) quick glance at his gac history shows easy matchups and no suspicious activity. Must be one helluva algorithm then to place him that high.

If you look at the players GAC history, they had a massive 300 plus SR jump from Chromium in Oct and an even bigger 400 plus jump in Nov - I don’t see any evidence they’ve done much wrong. It does however illustrate at least one of the flaws with the squish (add to the long list)

"ChuMuc;c-2451879" wrote:
No, it is the transfer from the old ranking to the new. As he did not play gac for a long time, his league stayed the same but his rating was not adjusted.

It's indeed no fault of the player but I don't get this "rating adjustment" part. He was actively playing at least from September, according to swgoh.gg GAC history. What and why exactly was "adjusted" in such strange way at Oct 10 and Nov 7?

One of my recent matches was a case of bad skill rating assignment. They had like 5 million GP, no GLs, etc. Their history showed a Carbonite match with an insanely high skill rating, then a Bronzium match, and then suddenly they catapulated to K1 because of their SR. They were on a consistent losing streak since that point because they couldn't compete.

I wasn't sure if it was because they took a break and came back and that's why their SR was messed up, but stuff like this is definitely happening. I couldn't see any signs of cheating. But for this person, it just seemed like they were destined to stay on a losing steak until they dropped to where they were supposed to be.

That is going to be a long and miserable losing streak.