Weekly Top 200 - 03/22/2013

[GreatGonzales]

Not sure anyone's reading my other thread due to eyes glazing over, so I'll post this here too. 'Cause, I spent a couple hours on this!

I was inspired to do some number crunching using my 1v1 and 2v2 ranking trends spreadsheets, to see if we can determine the skill disparity in a player population by examining the average rank differential over time.

My reasoning is, if there is not a lot of rank shift in a particular section of the ranking list, then the player population has settled into those ranks and are therefore closely matched in terms of skill. Higher rank differential would suggest a more diverse skill disparity. Take these graphs with a few grains of salt, though: other reasons why the rank differential does not shift much include 1) The player is playing infrequently, or is not playing at all, and/or 2) Matches are more difficult so the player takes a longer time to complete matches. However, I think it's human nature to slow down on the competitive edge when you feel you have met your match. All that to say, I think it's plausible to correlate a low rank differential with low skill disparity.

tl;dr: look at the pretty graphs.

I used 1v1 ranking data from 2/1 until present. For the 1v1 population, we can see that there is very low rank differential up until about rank 45.





I used 2v2 ranking data from 3/1 until present (all that we have available to us). For the 2v2 population, we can see that there is very low rank differential up until about rank 20.





So, I'm not sure how interesting these graphs are, or how useful. But, I just felt like doing it!