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TL;DR: Something is wrong here, and manual override is probably needed. Please, raise the T8 ratings to be within 100 or so of T7. Almost anything would be a major improvement at this point. Most of T7 and better is working as intended, but the math for T8 is simply impossible to overcome. Just looking at the past month alone shows that.
Just so that nobody misunderstands, nothing in this post is in any way debating whether FC and ET deserve to be in T8. This is simply backing up the people that say SF should be bumped up, manually if need be. They don’t deserve to be stuck in T8, and leaving them in T8 is demeaning to all three servers involved. However, the math behind the ratings is so screwed up that it’s almost impossible to do it naturally.
Please just take a look at SF’s rating evolution during their fall to T8. It’ll show you just how screwed up the math is, and how it’s almost literally impossible to escape from T8, even with a T7+ server.
When SF was still in T7, they came in third. They lost to second by a tiny 10k point gap. Their rating fell by 47.291 points.
When they fell down to T8, they came in second. They lost to first place by only 4k points. Mind you, they had an additional 76k points over what they had at the end of the week previously, but their rating still fell by a massive 163.07 points.
The week after that…they won. They beat second place by 15k points. What happened to their rating? It fell by an additional 30.339 points to beach itself at 793.338, a full 242.634 points behind HoD. I’d like to remind people that HoD and SF were roughly evenly matched before SF fell to T8.
Now take a look at HoD, who by all arguments was roughly evenly matched with SF before SF fell down to T8. The week after the fall, Kain curbstomped T7, with HoD taking third place. HoD lost by 10k points, only having 26k points at the end of the week.
Their rating? It fell by 61.899 points, down to 933.190. That’s it. It pushed itself back up to where it should be the week after that when Kain flung themselves out of the tier, now hovering roughly about the 1020 mark.
HoD’s rating is an example of what should happen when the tier ratings are close enough together that a blowout actually lets the system realize there might be a problem. SF’s ratings, on the other hand, are an example of just how screwed up the T8 math is.
No server should drop more than 150 points when they perform roughly the same. No server should continue to drop even more points when they start to wake up the server and win.
Then, simply because of the initial point loss, when SF truly woke up and started to roflstomp T8 (be it from people coming back to WvW or from free transfers is irrelevant at this point), the system can’t see a problem.
If anybody can argue that the math in place, and SF being held in T8 because of it are “fair” and “as it should be”, I’m begging you: Wake up.
As to why T8 ratings are so far below the T7 ratings in the first place, that topic would probably take half an essay to go over, so I won’t here. Just know that Kain and DR did not help the ratings of T8 at all with their stay.
On a side note, when SF finally breaks out of T8 (probably in 3-4 weeks if they keep the blowouts up), I request people take a very close look at the rating of the server that drops to take SF’s place. I’d bet you almost anything they drop minimum100 points the first week.
[Yarr] Takeru Kagamine – Usually dead or dying
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Nice try trying to discredit my position by implying that I’m not really a WvWer because you don’t see my guild tag in WvW. Super cute.