With two seasons now to go by, there is a trend that there tends to be a lot of movement at the end of each season. People and guilds who are ready for a change tend to move to new servers. Likewise, some servers over-perform in comparison to their non-season play.
In short, by 3-4 weeks post-season; the ratings do not resemble the state of affairs anymore. This can result in skewing placements for the following season as well; as the breakup of SoR caused a lot of change in ratings for higher tier servers, while dooming that server to a very horrible season experience.
We’re starting to see it again with some servers and it would help all involved if something were done to loosen the glacial pace of glicko change.
Maybe a quick week of daily matches to shake things loose, or perhaps increasing RNG for 2-3 weeks. Those would all help balance things out quicker.
This is purely an NA problem (EU looks pretty flat) but this would help shake things out before the next season announcement catches servers in the wrong place, wrong time again.
The rating adjusts way too slowly, agreed. Whatever they do, it should probably be done pre-season as well.
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