Guild Wars 2

As a server that will be working hard to get back to gold (assuming at this point we’re destined for silver), have you considered suspending Glicko ratings throughout the League?

Our goal has only ever been to maintain enough rating to stay in “T2” in order to get the consistent fights. If we face one of the lower servers in Silver we’d have to completely destroy them to avoid losing rating which would put us farther from Gold. It would help the fun for these servers if glicko was suspended so that larger servers don’t have to go all out and gun to maintain 600+ ppt.

This is a really good question that I’ve been wondering about as well. If you are near the top of your league it seems you only stand to lose ground not gain it. I think this will be especially bad in Silver where there is a 500 point rating spread between the predicted number 7 server (SBI) and the predicted number 15 server (NSP).

Just look at this week’s match-up of YBvSFvET. YB currently has 316k points to ET’s 66k and ET is still predicted to gain rating in this match-up. Those servers are only about 400 rating apart from one another.

I was under the impression as of Friday you’re locked into gold/silver/bronze for the next seven weeks and there was no mobility between the leagues?

Jayne.9251:

I was under the impression as of Friday you’re locked into gold/silver/bronze for the next seven weeks and there was no mobility between the leagues?

Thats not what the OP is referring to.
Servers will offcourse be locked into their league for the duration of the season.
But if the ratings keep being calculated the way there are, at the end of the season there would be a big ratings gap between the leagues because of how the ratings are calculated.
Meaning that if Season 2 starts right after Season 1 it would be virtually impossible to get to end up in a higher league the next season on ratings alone.

Oh I guess I misread .. was seeing him talking about being pushed further away from gold and having to decimate silver servers, etc .. I assumed he thought that a Silver server could move up from there to Gold leagues, etc …

Yah yah, get it now .. wasn’t even thinking about season 2, lol.

Jayne.9251:

I was under the impression as of Friday you’re locked into gold/silver/bronze for the next seven weeks and there was no mobility between the leagues?

Yes – but I don’t think they have worked out what they are doing after that.

The leagues are going to have the 5/3/1 scoring so rating will be meaningless (assuming they have a pre-determined and not a ranked/random draw for the league matchups to ensure each server plays every other).

They might keep internal ratings measured to determine matchups after leagues finish (if there is no season 2). If there is a season 2 of league as they are running it now they will need to tell us how servers will move between tiers – good example is if (on current form) TC/SoS/Mags finish bottom of gold and say FA/SBI/EB top of silver who would go up and who would go down.

Would be nice to hear from Anet on some details (I would especially like the matchmaking for the leagues over next seven weeks).

Wonder if they will keep rankings internally, or if they would be crazy enough to take your final score of the leagues, and base it off of that.

Good question….I very much doubt we will hear any sort of reply any time soon though. It’ll take a while to come up with a reply considering it probably was not considered before hand.

Andrew Clear.1750:

Wonder if they will keep rankings internally, or if they would be crazy enough to take your final score of the leagues, and base it off of that.

That’s the way they would probably do it if they were going straight into a season 2 of leagues. But from what they have said they are going to look at how the league plays out and decide what to do after the seven weeks.

Any clarification on this Anet Devs?

Bump. Would be nice to get an answer on this

Bump: Good question.