Streak based rating is flawed

[Kamikaze28]

(08-16-2012 06:02 PM)MagElf Wrote:  Isn't it correct, that nobody knows the rules for promoting to the next higher league or demoting to another? Only the developers know the rule.

So, we cannot say: The rules are good or bad.


If it is bullsh... what I wrote in the first sentence, then please can anybody write down the rules :-) ?

Given that the whole rating system is heuristic, it would be quite difficult to summarize the whole decision process behind promotions/demotions even if you were the one writing the code.
And although we don't know the inner workings of the system, we can talk about the results and their quality. Like, even though you don't know how a printer works exactly, you can judge the quality of prints and compare them to other printer's results.