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New Adventurer

1 day ago

Squish, yet again

I got squished by 75 points. Again. Why are we even keep playing when there's no chance to climb? It feels like running being tied to the wall. CG_Meathead stop that squishing already!

pvp

ihatethisgame82

New Traveler

20 hours ago

The squish occurs because rank ranges are static instead of percentage based. So it’s just one of a few ways of normalizing competitive mode ratings. Other two most common ways-

Percentage/population based: Top 1% of ratings are K1 or top 2500 of players. Unlikely to be used because of their weird ultra inflation of returning or placement players getting put at like 4500 and fed to Tass and BYoda etc.

Without a squish/normalization they would have an even worse spread across the various brackets, which already favors the bottom and the top.

harvestmouse1
Seasoned Ace
13 hours ago
ihatethisgame82 wrote:
The squish occurs because rank ranges are static instead of percentage based.
ihatethisgame82 wrote:
Without a squish/normalization they would have an even worse spread across the various brackets, which already favors the bottom and the top.
We're not talking about 'being squished'. We're talking about 'how much' we've been squished at the end of the last 2 seasons. K1 & K2 are being squished somewhere between 200% & 500% more on what has been the norm for the last couple of years.
This did happen before, and it was put down to a mistake with the squish formula. So, why are we being squished so much now? Is it a formula issue? Or is it being done on purpose? If so, I think we deserve to be told that. Rather than going on not knowing whether there's an issue or not.