Leaderboard ranking surprising results

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Posted by: Kicast.1459

Kicast.1459

Q:

Hi guys,

I was just having a look at GW2 solo queue leaderboards and I found some surprising results: see attached file.

How can a player with so few games and such a low ratio in victory (11th worst of top 1000 currently) become 16 ?

Did he win against world champions 4vs5 on last 22 match-ups ?
If yes how can a player have to play to a surprisingly so high level with so few history games ?

Honestly I don’t understand how it is possible.

Note: for some analysis I found this site quite helpfull:
http://gwshack.info/?page=spvp_solo®ion=eu

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Posted by: Chase.8415

Chase.8415

A:

Last November, the leaderboard rankings were all reset. However, the history of matches played, and win percentage, remained.

So it is probably an alternate account, and he probably got like 10 wins and 23 losses last year. Then, this year, he got 12 wins and 1 loss. Or something like that. So his “real” record is something like 12-1.

Your answer sounds good Thank you.
But I am still surprised that you can get top 16 with 20 victories. In the screen you have another guy who is rank 12 with 21 games (17 won). Is soloqueue population soo low ?

No, its just MMR stays frozen forever. So you can quit for 4 months and lose one game and shoot back to top 10 (since they were top 10 when they quit)

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Posted by: NevirSayDie.6235

NevirSayDie.6235

Last November, the leaderboard rankings were all reset. However, the history of matches played, and win percentage, remained.

So it is probably an alternate account, and he probably got like 10 wins and 23 losses last year. Then, this year, he got 12 wins and 1 loss. Or something like that. So his “real” record is something like 12-1.

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Posted by: Kicast.1459

Kicast.1459

Last November, the leaderboard rankings were all reset. However, the history of matches played, and win percentage, remained.

So it is probably an alternate account, and he probably got like 10 wins and 23 losses last year. Then, this year, he got 12 wins and 1 loss. Or something like that. So his “real” record is something like 12-1.

Your answer sounds good Thank you.
But I am still surprised that you can get top 16 with 20 victories. In the screen you have another guy who is rank 12 with 21 games (17 won). Is soloqueue population soo low ?

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Posted by: NevirSayDie.6235

NevirSayDie.6235

Your answer sounds good Thank you.
But I am still surprised that you can get top 16 with 20 victories. In the screen you have another guy who is rank 12 with 21 games (17 won). Is soloqueue population soo low ?

Also, the leaderboards use a glicko2 rating system. So there aren’t any extra parameters, like number of matches played or points scored or anything like that. It’s a good system, but sometimes causes issues because average players can possibly get 6-8 lucky wins and shoot up the leaderboards very quickly.

Of course, they always fall back to a suitable ranking after another few games, but for a few matches they might get put against players out of their league.

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Posted by: Romek.4201

Romek.4201

this guy in screenshot is from my guild and we had a laugh about yesterday in guildchat^^

this guy did not even know we have a leaderbaord or whats mmr – he is a PVEer and joined solo for the reward tracks

leaderboard is broken – as he shows^^

edit: oh yesterday he even was rank 12

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Posted by: Vargamonth.2047

Vargamonth.2047

I’m fairly sure there’s something weird with the MMR when you play again after a long break.

Some time ago I had to stop playing for a month or so. I was ranked around #200 EU in those days and had been having a quite good overall experience with tPvP.

When I came back, however, I got a top50 match for my first game.
Playing with people far above my skill level and not having touched the game for a long time, plus some technical issues with my mouse, the game was lost, as expected. In fact, I completely ruined it for my team.
I knew leaderboard decay wasn’t supposed to affect my MMR and I’d been matched with top players before, probably cause of the lack of pupulation, so even if it wasn’t a pleasant experience at all, I put it down to bad luck and moved on.
Hopefully my MMR would had been hit and I would get more appropriate matches in the future; and here’s where the real problem appeared … after playing and LOSING a SINGLE game, I was suddenly bumped to #32 EU, where I absolutely don’t belong (I’m not even sure if I really belonged to the place I was ranked before the break).

In this situation, I would have needed to make my way to an appropriate ranking (where I would be matched on statistically fair games) through losses, many of them. Needless to say that this would have not been a great experience neither for me nor my teammates, not even most of my enemies, and I haven’t touched soloQ since then.

Nowadays I queue solo for teamQ when I want to play tPvP. Being matched against premades is disgusting, but it doesn’t happen that often atm and it’s still much better than what I would have to suffer on soloQ (I also get better rewards and can completely avoid skyhammer, which is a huge improvement on its own :P)

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