Guild Wars 2

Just because I’m curious… how are the WvW rankings (not matchups) calculated now with the current system.

I’m curious, because the millenium site has some odd ranking numbers predicted for next week. I was unsure if this was an error on their part because of the new system, or if it’s how the new system is working, I’m not understanding.

For example. Tarnished Coast is winning it’s matchup right now… but if the matches were to end today, they would lose 11 points. Fort Aspenwood is second, but they would lose 20. Sea of Sorrows is third, and they’d gain 37.

This happens though a few different matchups, and I guess I’m just not getting it.

It’s because SoS is at this stage is doing alot better then expected based on the rankings, whilst TC and FA are not. Because it’s only been one day i wouldn’t take these numbers too seriously we get to see what the difference really is like after a couple of days.

This all sort of assumes that the losing teams won’t just “nope” out and quit long before the match up scoring is tallied.

In reality, this will just further destroy the credibility of the scoring system by incorrectly adjusting rankings based on RNG match up performance.

To put it simply, if this were baseball, it would be like putting little league teams up against Major League Baseball teams. Which if you consider the difference in ratings means that if the little league team even got someone on base, the MLB teams overall ranking would DROP, and the little league teams would be artificially high, and way beyond their actual statistical ability.

Or worse, the MLB team has taken to “beaning” the kids at bat, and none of them even want to play, further pushing down their score creating an artificial trough, and at least with WvW, means a mass exodus from the lower population servers.

Any team can be the Bad News Bears, but they never faced the Yankees, and at least had the same number of players on the field.