"Screerider;c-2413510" wrote:
"Rokaryn_Mazel;c-2413500" wrote:
Sure, your ranking does not change, but your ranking does not determine your division, the boundary for K1 is 3610. Eventually, the 50th ranked player in world will be 3605 and K2, unless squish is changed.
Yes, they're failing with K1. Acknowledged.
As to ranking, let's take an example. Suppose we're trying to keep K1 to the Top 2% of the player-base. And after a GAC Season, about 3% of the players have a Skill Rating value over 3610. To get back to 2%, you've have to shave that bottom 1% off into K2. Sadge.
And then you linearly map these player's Skill Ratings over to new Skill Ratings so that the unfortunate 1% ends up under 3610, and pull down the values of the Top 2% down closer to 3610 as well. What I think of as "The Squish" (YMMV).
If keeping the percentages as originally laid out is a goal, this would be an obvious way to do it. And we really don't know it isn't. The shrinking of K1 is either an error or intentional, if this if what CG is attempting to accomplish.
We do know, the player base is not shrinking anywhere near the rate K1 is. Players entering GAC is on a very slow decline, I dont have exact numbers but it is somewhere from 400k down to 380k ish. Meanwhile K1 has shrunk from 20k to 1,2k.
