Bump these teams to SuperTitan please!!!

[GreatGonzales]

Quote:Okay. Lets go with the top .1% for the sake of argument. These 2 teams will have a higher hidden skill then the others. If this top .1% applied, getting to ST is simple, either wait for more people to come around or outskill one of the 2 teams. But honestly though, I strongly believe they didn't make it the top .1% but rather a hidden skill threshold which I don't feel like should be changed. Why? Because, it IS possible to get past that threshold. If they changed the threshold, being a 2v2 ST wouldn't have as much meaning as 1v1 because 2v2 has a lower hidden skill requirement.

This is your error: the number of players that can exceed a certain skill threshold is probably related to the size of the population of players. I say probably because again, it's a black box. But ELO, for example, is related to the size of the population. You need people below you in order to prop yourself up to a higher standing, is one way to think about it.

Again, you're right that OML isn't using percentiles but a hidden skill threshold. But they decided the skill threshold based on some delineation of the player population, right? This is what I mean when I discuss percentiles.

Lets agree that there IS an unreasonable threshold out there. Suppose the threshold was the top .001%, virtually ensuring that no more than 1 team would ever have the league of ST. That would not have much utility, right? There is an ideal here and I think it is frankly obvious that we are not there.

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I mean, what if there were only 5 1v1 supertitans? Wouldn't that seem wrong to you? Yes the 2 teams making it into ST would have the highest hidden skill rating, just as poweewee has a much higher skill rating than harvanold. The idea is we open the league up so that meaningful distinctions can be made.