Jumped from clever to gifted (same rank)

[Ja Karta]

Hmm...
I was just promoted to gifted today. (first promotion; though it's not unexpected, as I've had an undefeated run for awhile now, including gifted opps. [defintiely not bragging; I'm still a sloppy player, but I don't think it's evidence of mass promotions; though I'd support that.])

I kept my rank #2 (perhaps coincidence) but only had ~1/3 the points.
From that I'd guess that there's some points division that normally occurs on promotion. However, one will tend to get promoted into a 'new' league and thus the majority of people there will be newly promoted and, statistically, you're likely to have the same in-league rank.

This runs counter to someone having the same number of points on promotion though.


Regardless, it's all a bit silly. When I was playing my promotion test games it would almost always be against top 10 or at least top 25 gifted players. I assume that actually means the top rated players are actually lower in skill on average than the lower ranked players. (Which is perfectly plausible if many people enter gifted and plateau for awhile; that means that newbs will have more points than veterans). I'm basing these assumptions on anecdotal evidence.

(02-17-2013 02:49 PM)ElPared Wrote:  it's OK I for one barely understood a thing you said in that second paragraph anyways lol

as for the promotion, I think what happened is the ENTIRE Broad Turtle Division in Clever League got promoted to Gifted. I looked at the Round Feather Division list and noticed a LOT of people I played (2-3 times in some cases) back in Clever were now in the same Gifted division as me.

I'll explain it when I post the alg.
A whole division being promoted sounds... irregular. No?