Excessive free time and youth, usually.
htt ps://www.esportstales.com/overwatch/competitive-rank-distribution-pc-and-console
no reason to think its changed
Isnât it because of Binomial distribution or something?
IIRC itâs data from 2 years ago.
Well there might be some reasons why it changes.
- Community couldâve grown
- People could have improved, which is actually pretty normal because people will have been improving in those last 2 years so that could result in many more players entering the rank.
The official data comes from here: Competitive Mode Tier Distribution
but everyone has improved, including people at the highest level
Exactly, though this does not mean that itâs harder to get in GM.
Meaning people can just get in GM like all the others, so if they improve they can get in GM doesnât matter if the GMâs themselves improve.
the bar is higher, on release gm then is like diamond now, doesnt mean that everyone has hit gm
Better question, why are 1% of the playerbase below SR500.
Eventually there isnât room for improvement, people will in the end get in that category.
Itâs not like it will become impossible to get in GM, why are you so hardstuck on that there isnât a single chance that the % couldâve gone up?
Why? Because some players belong there.
Except sometimes it is. Thatâs just reality.
Luck definitely plays a role especially if you happen to be a solo player, there are some guys that even the overwatch pros just cant carry. If you are good, you will climb and steamroll as long as you donât get throwers, cheaters, one tricks, boosted players, bought accounts and smurfs to have on your team or face. The games competitive is extremely unreliable and unbalanced. You improve your chances at climbing if you pair with someone else, no more than 2 because then you will be forced to play vs stacked teams that will just roll you and force you to derank
this is just so untrue its funny, how can you think theres a cap on how good you can be
how are you so hardstuck that the people at the top havent improved? if the best person in the world gets better they dont get more sr, they just make 4700 ish their level and that trickles down, you have to beat the people better than you to rank up so you have to improve faster than them
Honestly the % is probably still the same. Back when they reworked comp, season 2 I think, the devs showed a bell curve for comp that pretty much showed how the rankings would sort people. So it pretty much kind of guarantees that gm + will always be a small percentage of players. This is not to say that people canât get there once that % is met, but it does mean that when get to gm you basically have to knock someone down to masters to take their place in GM. So as players get better and climb the players at the top that can not grow anymore as a player will be knocked into lower ranks. How far they fall will be determined by how good players get vs. their skill that is not developing.
wasted 4 days got only 100 sr
I hear you, ive had days where I lose 2-400 sr and then a day later I get over 5-600 sr back. I truly feel the game does its very best to force that 50% to the point that it will give you the worse possible teammates just so you cannot steamroll to top 500.
Personally I think itâs cause the ranked system is flawed and makes climbing very difficult. I mean donât get me wrong, gm should naturally be a small portion of the community, but I also think there are several good intelligent players stuck in some rank with dum dums. A lot of these people if given a gm account could probably maintain that rank pretty easily.
Whatâs hard about overwatch is climbing with a team of dum dums. Give a smart person a smart team and things just get easier.
Thatâs how statistics work. Everytime someone wins someone else loses SR. If you are in a GM promotion game someone else in the losing team probably dropped below 4k SR. SR is not a leveling system where everyone keeps going higher.
When someone says âeveryone can be gmâ they donât mean literally every player is at GM rank. They mean everyone has the potential of ranking up to GM if they put enough time and effort to becoming good and ranking up, although even then âeveryoneâ is an exaggeration but Iâd say everyone(without any bigger disabilities or other handicaps) can get to at least diamond if not master.
Everyone who plays this game gets better over time. If you want to rank up you have to get better faster than other players are getting better. Same people have natural talent or they have already accumulated talent before in other games that might partially transfer over to OW. Itâs all something you have to overcome if you want to get to the best ranks.
Fair enough, though it will become harder and harder to find ways to improve in the end.
People at the top will improve, though itâs a high chance that people below them will learn how they improved faster than those at the top.
Hmm thatâs quite true actually.
If players placed in GM or really close to it then that would mean they werenât knocking someone down. Though now that there is a limit it means the % will stay the same somewhat.
Even then we canât say that an even amount of people are being knocked out of GM as many there are climbing into it. This is because MMR manipulates of course SR loss/gain, so there is a chance the % couldâve increased overtime⌠though then again it could apply the opposite way too.
They should just release new statistics tbh, would help us out greatly.
Well sure it isnât a leveling system where everyone keeps going higher.
Though MMR can result in the increase of the % because it doesnât guarantee that players will get knocked out of GM.
Weâre all currently saying whatâs theoretically possible, though we really canât do anything unless Blizzard gives us the info we actually need.
i knew a lot of people who used to sell t500 accounts, i dont remember a single time where a player used them as a main and didnt fall back to their original ranks
But then when your 60 years old you can tell your grandchildren how you were GM in Overwatch.
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