Guild Wars 2

My rank appears as a % if I’m not high enough to be put on the leaders boards. Currently I’m at 87%, if I get to 100% will I be on the leaderboards? Also, how come there are people in the high 900s (still on the leadearboard, apparently unlike me) with 49 wins, 50 loses, and I’m at 77 wins, 50 loses but not even on the leader board? If it’s somehow off your performance during the match, I’m usually top scoring, and do pretty well. How come I’m not even in the top 1,000, and just at 87%?

87% means you are ranked higher than 87% of the players on the leaderboard. Top 1000 is something like the top 7% or so.

Your rank is determined entirely on win or lose, what you do in match doesn’t matter. You have a hidden MMR (matchmaker rating), which is what the leaderboards are ordered by. The amount you gain or lose from a match depends on your MMR relative to those of your opponents’. Your rating is not based on pure W/L or win percentage, only MMR.

Nettle.9025:

87% means you are ranked higher than 87% of the players on the leaderboard. Top 1000 is something like the top 7% or so.

Your rank is determined entirely on win or lose, what you do in match doesn’t matter. You have a hidden MMR (matchmaker rating), which is what the leaderboards are ordered by. The amount you gain or lose from a match depends on your MMR relative to those of your opponents’. Your rating is not based on pure W/L or win percentage, only MMR.

I still don’t see how something with more losses than wins can be higher than me on the leader board? If they lost so much wouldn’t their MMR be crap, meaning their wins would be crap against similar low MMR teams

shockwave.1764:

Nettle.9025:

87% means you are ranked higher than 87% of the players on the leaderboard. Top 1000 is something like the top 7% or so.

Your rank is determined entirely on win or lose, what you do in match doesn’t matter. You have a hidden MMR (matchmaker rating), which is what the leaderboards are ordered by. The amount you gain or lose from a match depends on your MMR relative to those of your opponents’. Your rating is not based on pure W/L or win percentage, only MMR.

I still don’t see how something with more losses than wins can be higher than me on the leader board? If they lost so much wouldn’t their MMR be crap, meaning their wins would be crap against similar low MMR teams

It means that they won matches against highly-ranked opponents, and so they got matched with them again.

Think of it this way: you shouldn’t be able to pass people on the leaderboards until you’ve “beaten” them, or at least beaten people with similar ranks as them. You can go 8 and 2, but if that’s six wins against people about the same as you, two wins against people slightly lower than you, and two losses are against people slightly higher than you, don’t expect to pass them. They beat you.

The reason a person can be higher with more losses than wins is that the times he was on, there were more people in the queue above him than below him. So, he played more matches against higher opponents than against lower opponents. The same thing can happen to people in a premade team when their teammates have higher ratings than them: their MMR doesn’t go down a whole lot because they’re being matched against teams significantly higher than them, personally. They still get a few wins against very, very good players, which rightfully gives them a significant boost that outweighs multiple losses.