Guild Wars 2

Can anyone explain how the scoring works? What does the % mean on the left? (My rank % says 62?)

not to be confused with my win % of 64.29.

Also how are points awarded?

I would guess 62% means that you’re among the 62% best players in the leaderboard… as in, 61% are higher than you and 38% rank lower than you. At least that’s what I would guess from the fact that percentages are increasing the lower you go on the leaderboards.
Can’t really get much information from the linked article… it’s quite confusing to be honest. Sounds like you’d need a math-degree to understand what the heck they mean… I only can assume it could be explained in much simpler ways than the article attempts to.

Only need Stats 101 to understand it.

62% means that your point total places you in that percentile.

I understand percentile

Its just not explained on the leaderboard is all.

SobeSoul.6910:

62% means that your point total places you in that percentile.

That’s like saying the grass is green because the grass is green, lol. And it’s super obvious that it shows 62% because it places you in 62%… just like you are fifth because you are fifth. Doesn’t explain anything to the OP, and doesn’t explain what percentiles are either. It does not even tell me if my assumption (that I’ve outlined in the first part of my other post here) is right or wrong.

Edit: On a sidenote, I hear players asking what that percentage means quite often. I usually tell them what I assume and that I don’t REALLY know for sure either. ^^

0% lowest to 99% after 99% 1000-999-998-997-996-995-994-993-992-991-990-989-was actually going to type till 1. I am far to lazy for that.

Saturn.6591:

SobeSoul.6910:

62% means that your point total places you in that percentile.

That’s like saying the grass is green because the grass is green, lol. And it’s super obvious that it shows 62% because it places you in 62%… just like you are fifth because you are fifth. Doesn’t explain anything to the OP, and doesn’t explain what percentiles are either. It does not even tell me if my assumption (that I’ve outlined in the first part of my other post here) is right or wrong.

Edit: On a sidenote, I hear players asking what that percentage means quite often. I usually tell them what I assume and that I don’t REALLY know for sure either. ^^

I don’t know what to tell you if you don’t understand statistics. You were linked to percentiles by Evan. The abstract of percentiles isn’t too hard to understand. If you are ranked in the 62%, in context to the LB, means you have more points than 62% of the spvp population.

Graphically you would normally see a bellcurve with the 62% shaded in. It’s a little easier to understand when you get the visuals of it.

Judge.1923:

0% lowest to 99% after 99% 1000-999-998-997-996-995-994-993-992-991-990-989-was actually going to type till 1. I am far to lazy for that.

that would imply a whole hell of a lot more players than I imagine to be playing pvp

There’s tons of players who play spvp. Remember the game is 24/7 and NA servers contain Oceanics and Asian people.

yeah like 90% of people will play 3 games or less during the entire season >.>

cantuchky.8412:

that would imply a whole hell of a lot more players than I imagine to be playing pvp

It starts giving numeric rankings around 93-94%; ~16,700 players on the ladder.

That is a fairly small playerbase, is it not?
I mean, compare GW2 overall population vs that numbers, and it does seem rather small.

I don’t have the numbers here with me but I Think GW1 had a lot more players on the GvG laddder with far lower box sales, overall.

PS- Are you the Ensign for GW1 Idiot Savants [iQ]?

SobeSoul.6910:

I don’t know what to tell you if you don’t understand statistics.

I do understand statistics. If 20% of the people on a ship are from country x, 75% from country y and 5% from other countries, then that’s a statistic. And then you could add that the average human on the ship is male and 32 years old and I would understand that this does not have to mean that most actually have exactly that age and gender.

SobeSoul.6910:

You were linked to percentiles by Evan.

Well, not me but the OP, and I just felt like chiming in. And as I’ve explained before, I’ve never heard the word “percentile” before, neither in english nor in my first language. And I daresay I’ve never heard about like 50% or more of the terms used in that article; neither in english nor my first language. Thus, the article didn’t help at all; except if the intention was to confuse me even more. Even moreso since it lists different kinds of percentiles, and nowhere did it say which one of those kinds are used for the PvP leaderboards.

SobeSoul.6910:

If you are ranked in the 62%, in context to the LB, means you have more points than 62% of the spvp population.

See, this sentence actually is all that’s needed. It’s simple and still answers the question of the OP correctly.

SobeSoul.6910:

Graphically you would normally see a bellcurve with the 62% shaded in.

I didn’t know what the heck a bellcurve is until like a week ago, where someone brought it up in a conversation and I had to look it up. However, I don’t know what you mean with “shaded in”. ^^

SobeSoul.6910:

It’s a little easier to understand when you get the visuals of it.

Maybe if you also have a legend to the graphic which tells you what is what. However, it’s not really needed anymore, as the original question was answered. Though; I actually don’t see how you would want to fit the leaderboards into a bellcurve… but whatever.