a Bug? : I was enrolled to two leagues simultaneously

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(09-05-2014 10:11 AM)Flarp55 Wrote:  

(09-05-2014 02:21 AM)onealexleft Wrote:  

(09-04-2014 09:22 AM)Flarp55 Wrote:  I think the ranking system needs to be totally redone.

What are the issues you see with it?

Well, promotion after loss/demotion after win should clearly never happen. If someone were doing well/badly enough to be promoted/demoted, they should have been promoted/demoted the game before.

That's a very naive way of thinking about it. We have no idea what kind of algorithm they are using so this really doesn't have a basis. There could be two numbers for each player not just the hidden rating but also a confidence in that rating or something. The more you win in a row, the confidence in your placement is decreasing because the game wants to make you go 50-50. When you finally lose a game, the confidence in your actual rating can go up, causing it to actually place you in the division above, because it was unsure of the skill rating it had before before.