Guild Wars 2

Just a thought I had looking at the current matches. According to the scores things are going as expected. The problem is the raw score, as we all know, pretty much just reflects coverage. However, if you judge the winners and losers by the change in Glicko rating you get a different picture.

Going by the raw score the winners are SoR, TC, DB, CD, EB, DH, IoJ, and SF. Going by Glicko the winners currently are JQ, SoS, SBI, CD, AR, NS, FC, and ET. Because despite coverage and population differences those servers have performed better than expected. Given the population disparities and the fact that no one has come up with a workable way of changing that, maybe the best way to determine winning and losing weekly is to go by the change in Glicko.

While I would love to see the servers all balanced and competitive, i have played enough of these games to know that just is not going to happen. So while waiting for some miraculous event to balance all the servers maybe we are better off determining who is winning by the change in rating and not by the final scores.

Of course, score is just an intermediate result needed to compute the final result.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/New-Server-Matchups-Was-Worst-Idea-Ever/2146243

The change was only a PR and psychological effect move. Of course it was a horrible idea logically to give people worse matchups, but it was better than stale matchups, I think?

What is really needed:

- Changes in scoring system to make it less about coverage (some system where you score points that are at least partially based on how much fighting is going on)

- A serious attempt to balance server populations so that more servers are close together in number of WvW players.