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engraham

6 years ago

Q&A: Sandbagging Response

So @CG_Cyanides you don't understand how 40 players with 5.5M GP can overrun a guild of 50 with 4.4M GP in TW?

Waquira

6 years ago

"TheRHOMBUS;c-2023862" wrote:
"StarSon;c-2023846" wrote:
"Obi1_son;c-2023802" wrote:
"StoemKnight;c-2023719" wrote:
"trevyclause;c-2023712" wrote:
sorry for my lack of knowledge, but can someone briefly explain how sandbagging works? It seems likes it’s not possible for it to give you an advantage, but I would assume I just don’t know how it works.

To me it just seems that the matchmaking system just does a not-so-great job at taking into account the varying rosters across the board.

A group of 40 players, with 5.5M GP (mostly relic'd) takes on a guild of 50 players, mostly 4.4M (barely relic'd), both are 220M guilds...
Who do you think wins easily?

My money would be on the guild with 50 players

Chances are they will have more meta toons/teams

Well, then you would be wrong. Because the guild with 40 players has 40 of each meta team with all the appropriate zetas and most at g13. The guild with 50 will have maybe 30-35 of most of the meta teams, without all the zetas, and with worse gear levels.

Why doesn’t the guild with 50 have 40+?

The guild with 50 participants has an average GP of 80% of the average GP of their 40 competitors. Less developed rosters often (not always) have fewer geared META teams/characters. But yes, at 4.4 million in theory you could have each and every META team g12+.