Has Blizzard ever addressed smurfs? Will they?

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EXAMPLE: Masters is something like 0.5% of the player base, and Diamond is 10%. So, even if EVERY person from Masters was smurfing at the same time, that would be < 5% of “Diamond” players being smurfs. < 1/20, or 1 in like 2 games.

I tried to find statistics of who had smurfs but I couldn’t find anything. But, with slight generosity I’m going to say 1/5 of top 5% players have smurfs. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was higher.

So, even with a low percent saying that only 1% of players smurf, that still means the chances of playing with a smurf are high. I’m having trouble figuring out the numbers exactly, but it’d be around a 1/11 chance to have a smurf in the game? So, just under 9%.

Are you saying 1% of total players? Over all brackets smurf? Thus making it 1% of 5%? Would make your end number 1/1100.

For actual numbers: Competitive Mode Tier Distribution

I’ll go ahead and update my math here, and in the original reply.

10% of players are in Diamond, 3% are in masters.

If every person in Masters smurfs, then that’s 1.3x more players in the possible pool. 30 / 130 = 0.23, or 23% of the player pool.

If 1% of Masters smurfs into Diamond, than that’s 23% * .01 or .23% of the player pool being smurfs.

We know it’s not 100% of Masters, since Masters games are played.

Where is it on the spectrum? I bet Tigole Bitties knows.