Guild Wars 2

Sifting through the current leaderboard I can see instances of:

Wins: +1, +2, +3 pts
Losses: -2 ,-1, 0, +1 pts

That’s the same point allocation as last season. That means if the current LB ranking is changed, it’s in some hidden way.

Also, I fit the median points per game (PPG) of players with a 50% win ratio and found that they average .3 points per game. For reference, .38 PPG was good enough to achieve top 10 on the previous leaderboard.

So as of right now, the leaderboard appears to have negligeable change from last season. I think the only possibility left is that you’ll get diminishing returns on points based on how many games you play… but it seems unlikely.

they should remove “Ladder Points” forever and sort the MMR according to Matchmaking.

that’s basically the first LB incarnation, which just becomes the winning streak board. Get a series of wins for inflated mmr, then never play again, stay on top of boards.

The new system might work ok if average players didn’t accumulate points, only players that consistently win good games.

The old system tweaked is better than this system. People are just accumulating points by volumes of games.

Yeah ever since the leaderboard re-design I’ve pretty much stopped playing ranked games. The old system was far superior, I can only afford to play for about one hour a day so I can’t really keep up with the new system.

This system is better because it encourages play. Some may not like it, but how fair is it for someone to get on a win streak and not play for a week while others have to climb uphill to catch up?

One thing we can’t have is the old HA approach where spvp players will be spamming for “top ranked, winning players, those on a winning streak only” in order to improve their rank on the board.

It’s never going to be perfect, but they can tweak as they need. I honestly get destroyed in ranked of late anyways. If I had a say I would suggest that they give rewards to those who even though they lose are constantly on top of team in score or objective success.