Guild Wars 2

So im guessing to move up in the leader boards you have to win, its not based on individual performance right?

From my understanding it’s based on how often and again whom you win. The score shown on the Scoreboard at the end of the match does not matter at all.

Well, no other way to say this: Because they have no clue.

Rage.9723:

Then why do people brag about score at end of game so often?

because people are clueless scrubs.

Mystogan.4157:

So im guessing to move up in the leader boards you have to win, its not based on individual performance right?

To answer your question, yes to have to win. Individual scores means nothing at all.

Rage.9723:

Then why do people brag about score at end of game so often?

Its usually only new or really bad players who brag about it.

You can have 1 guy defending his homenode vs 2-3 all game ….while the rest of the team is farming the other 2 ppl with 4.

That single guy might end up with a score of 10….yet he still carried his teammates that have scores that might be 300+ even.

it has nothing to do with how well you play. it just whether you win or lose. score 5 points and lose 500-20 is exactly the same as score 300 points and lose 500-499 in Anet’s eyes.

Win/loss is the best reasonable factor for ranking. Good players will inevitably have a noticeable impact on their teams’ chances of success over long periods of time, and the better the player, the larger the impact.

NevirSayDie.6235:

Win/loss is the best reasonable factor for ranking. Good players will inevitably have a noticeable impact on their teams’ chances of success over long periods of time, and the better the player, the larger the impact.

true but the matchmaking ruins this because you get low rank players with huge volatility that the MMR has no idea how good they really are, but they put them on your team and the enemy teams, so their volatility makes everyone’s rating very volatile, and even after a thousand games played, you can still go up or down hundreds of ranks in just a few games.

Solstice.1097:

NevirSayDie.6235:

Win/loss is the best reasonable factor for ranking. Good players will inevitably have a noticeable impact on their teams’ chances of success over long periods of time, and the better the player, the larger the impact.

true but the matchmaking ruins this because you get low rank players with huge volatility that the MMR has no idea how good they really are, but they put them on your team and the enemy teams, so their volatility makes everyone’s rating very volatile, and even after a thousand games played, you can still go up or down hundreds of ranks in just a few games.

Honestly, I don’t think hundreds of ranks is very volatile. Hundreds of ranks is likely less than one percentile. I agree that it’s sometimes frustrating when you have some less-skilled teammates on your team. But if someone’s rank fluctuates between 200 and 500 depending on how things go on a given day, that’s all right. There’s probably only a miniscule difference in MMR between rank 268 and rank 492.

The higher the population, the more volatile rankings become; and the lower the population, the more volatile the skill of your teammates becomes.

There’s no way to have a lot of other players who are just about exactly as good as you are, and yet somehow keep them from moving above or below you on the leaderboard.

Put another way, your rank can fluctuate by a few hundred in a few games because there are a few hundred other players who are essentially exactly as good as you are.

yea or in a better universe the MMR wouldnt change so much post-match which would take more than 20 games to get into top 50 and people wouldnt go up or down more than 20-30 ranks in a match.