GAC: League Demotion / Promotion

"InyakSolomon88;c-2333060" wrote:

"Darth_Etern4l;c-2333040" wrote:
Its too early to tell where your real place should be.

In the original dev post, they said that based on their calcs/testing, it will take 2-3 full cycles to finalise a realistic ranking.
We're still just in the middle of the 2nd cycle.

If they keep "squishing" and randomly taking away points from some accounts and giving points to other accounts, we're not going to ever have settled places. My alt got almost a 100 point increase. I've seen others who got more than that. Some accounts are artificially being raised when they don't deserve the promotion to the new league which is going to only make it harder for anyone to find their 'real place'.

I think the squish is required because of their flawed decision to set the divisions up as 10/25/30/25/10% of the league population.

Because the population of div 3 is higher than div 2 and 4, there will be more players in div 3 that have point losses to drop into div4 than there are players who have point gains to rise into div 3. The same the other direction, and exacerbated by the larger population difference in div4 to div5 or div2 to div1.

This means that over a season, where the point thresholds do not change for the divisions, the player population is migrating out towards the top and bottom divisions of a league. If a season went on for longer the population of the league would stabilize with 20% in each division eventually.

Because they want to maintain their division populations they have to adjust the point ranges every season. If they just did this alone that would mean thousands of players getting immediately demoted or promoted at that time when the points were adjusted. That would be quite disruptive to the community.

So instead, the adjust the div point ranges and also scale every player to move them towards where they actually want the population to be.

I think this problem would go away if they made every division equal in size.