Guild Wars 2

After the server rankings got updated I was really interested how the horrible match this week would influence the ranking of my server and which server we could probably play against next week.
I am playing on Abaddon’s Mouth [DE] and we were matched up against Seafarer’s Rest and Fort Ranik [FR]. Two servers which have been almost 100 points above us in the last posted ranking. Seafarer’s Rest totally dominates in this match, the two other servers barely get over +100 points – and I am not speaking about night times, they dominate all day long. But ok, this game is new, everything has to settle and I am fine with a few problems as long as they get solved.
Now I see the new ranking. My expectations: Abaddon’s Mouth and Fort Ranik go down or Seafarer’s Rest goes up. Either way, we can’t play against them another time, they are clearly much, much stronger than we are, whatever the reason is (no discussion about that, please). The new ranking of our three servers is just ridiculous: Seafarer’s Rest moved down, while the other two servers stayed where they were. Now all three servers have a ranking value which indicates that they will be playing against each other more often in the future.
So my question is: How could this happen? I just don’t get how they could go down in their rating. I really don’t care what our rating is or theirs as long as the matches are somewhat balanced.

Although I know ArenaNet will be balancing their calculation for the rankings, I have to point out this so it doesn’t get overseen that there definitely is some kind of error in the ranking calculation.

Also excuse me for my mistakes, english is not my first language.

I don’t think any updates to the ranks will be done until the current matchup is over. That being said, I think the last 1-2 matches in the 24-hour resets have not been updated as well.

Just take a look in the rankings thread. They got updated about 3 hours ago.

Yeah, seems a ranking not really representing a real situation for some reason. I am not sure how they rearranged it, but at any rate -its a ranking prior to the weekly matches start.

Also take a note, that servers are also matched with population in mind, and Seafarers Rest is MEDIUM, while both Abbadons Mouth and Fort Ranik are HIGH. The ranked is based on previous matches (and not all servers had a chance to fight against everyone – for example Fort Ranik was ranked higher than us, because faced weaker servers that it could beat – while we kept fighting a big servers, thus have less wins and thus ranked less: even though this much makes it obvious SR is much stronger than FR (FR is 3rd place, loosing to even lower ranked Abbadonth Mouth on 2nd place).

On other hand – the absolutely weak nightcapping Baruch Bay, that pretty much every server beats in prime time (we lead on them with 400 points vs 50….) is high in ranking, despite being one of the weakest servers we ever fought again – the system is screwed by itself.

Regarding the matchups- as told, we are medium server, and after win in this match probably will be forced to fight against HIGH/FULL servers again moving up the ranks.

We beat most in prime time, but because of lower population are in the middle level of ladder because of weakness against higher populated servers in offtime. Not so noticeable against Abbadon/Ranik (which both are bigger than us, but seems have lost their moral – though for example, Abbadon is more active than us at day too).

The problem with the ranking is that it cant achive “perfect” matchups since there are no 3 equal servers really.

We are medium server that ideally should fight other medium servers, but we are so more successfull in wvw that we have HIGH and sometimes full servers all the time – but thats also our limit, since even if we win against higher populated server on prime time, we`d loose at morning.

We`d prefer to fight equal population as organized wvw server – but there are no other medium servers like that atm. Abbadons and Ranik have to fight equal level and population HIGH servers : Jade Sea, Ring of Fire, Arberstone – but instead they were matched against us.

Either way, score based matchups are not really the most optimal – but fighting proper enemies for each server is even harder, since there really is not many servers of equal population or strength: even the top matchup of 3 overpopulated servers is utterly disbalanced because of night capping population difference.