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!
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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.
We don't really *know* why the squish is needed - CG never told us why is it for nor did they tell us how is it work. We can only speculate.
The most important thing needed from CG is transparency, and perhaps (most likely, actually) we can come with better solutions that the one being implemented right now - but we need to know the goal.
CG need to define explicitly what it takes to be in each division, because if we're told that a certain amount of points is needed to get somewhere, and people have get these points, they belong that place. Squishing them back is cheating and not fair
We don't really *know* why the squish is needed
I think we do. We have the squish for 2 reasons.
Reason 1 (the easy one): It's to prevent players from getting too far from the group. If we look at the best player in the game, they rarely lose. Without squish, this guy would be off into the sunset, never to be caught again. The same at the other end. Squish keeps players in touch.
Reason 2 (the more wordy one): We play with hard walls between leagues. This means once you hit that wall, you cannot go any further that season. What this means is that the leagues become (or would become) somewhat egg-cup shaped; everybody congregated in the higher or lower divisions. So, between seasons we are all squished. We're all pushed towards division 3, making leagues slightly more diamond shape (more players towards the middle). What this means, is that the division sizes can be maintained. Over the season, the divisions are well distributed (more towards the middle at the start, more towards the top/bot at the end.
These are the reasons why we have squish.
Personally, I'd prefer a straight ladder without divs/leagues, then there's little need for squish and no big changes in divisions which affects the balance.
I lost 49 in K2 which is fairly average for me.
Really? That would have certainly been average before the squish was fixed. I'm not sure you were being squished that much 3 or 4 seasons ago. Less than 20 has been my average (in K2) since they realised K1 was depleting.
I don't think K2 can sustain itself with 49 points of squish, per season.
No, we do not know. We guess, we assume and we might be right. But we don't know, due to the simple pact that CG never officially told us. The lack of transparency is the worst part in their engagement with the community.
Btw, for the past year or so I'm dangling between K1 and K2, and I'm being squished by 40 at least. Now it's already 75
Lot's of returning players, apparently or old accounts that we're sold to others. I am just seriously surprised at how many accounts in K1 don't even have a Sith Revan and barely have Thrawn developed. They've been inactive a VERY long time.
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