Guild Wars 2

Can someone please explain how Decay isn’t knocking some of these players out of the top 250 ranked players.

I am talking about players who have played <50 games, and in some cases, they have only played 10 matches, their placement matches. Here are some examples:

http://i.imgur.com/s723011.jpg

This player has played 10 games total, this particular player has a 7-3 win/lose after placement matches. 70% Win rate, yet others have had the same score from placement matches and been put into gold Division or even Silver Division. This particular player is ranked 92nd.

Another example can be seen here;

http://i.imgur.com/7HcdhTB.jpg

Ranked 139th. Same story with a 7-3 score after placement matches.

The only thing I can assume is that it’s based on your already existent MMR before Season starts, therefore placement matches aren’t really placement matches;

OR

Placement matches are more beneficial to be played either at the beginning or end of the season – i.e play 10 games and get 7-3 to be top 250.

I’m not sure which but looking as these players haven’t played more than 10 games and haven’t been decayed down the ranks I would lean towards the end of the Season to do placement matches.

I understand that Decay can be re-gained and is capped to a point, but playing such few matches or only your first 10 placement matches from many players in 250 doesn’t seem enough to knock them out of the top 250, when they are not actively playing the Season.

You can see how some players gained a high rank (top 250) from placement matches, somehow, and then proceed to play only enough games to stop de-cay and so remain in the top 250.

My point applies to those who have played very few games, most have played more than the placement, these are just extreme examples, but there are players who have <50 games and are in the top 250 yet still on a ~50-55% win rate.

Finishing the season with <50 games unless having a high win rate such as, 80+% Win rate, should not place you in the top 250 players.

Decay should punish these players more than it does currently.

It doesn’t matter what is your w/l ratio in placements, all that matters is enemies you’re facing. 3 wins over legends will give you more rating points than 30 wins over silver people.