Master league is as big as it has ever been in over 2 years

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https ://www.rankedftw.com/stats/leagues/1v1/#v=2&r=-2&sx=a
if you look at it you will notice a pattern, every new season the players get reset and both master and diamond league players log in to get their rank, as a result of this there is a spike in the percent of master and diamond league players.

if you move your mouse to the very side you will notice that master league is at 7.3% the highest it has been in a while, just a few weeks ago it was at 3.5%

any thoughts as to why there is an abnormally large spike? does it have anything to do with the mmr change they implemented a few weeks ago?

you have to really move your mouse to the very edge in order to see it btw.

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Masters definitely feels too big right now. Blizzard probably screwed up their mmr calculation to keep it around the 4% they usually aim for.

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so in your opinion, are they letting garbage diamond players into master even though they are bad?

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What are you setting me up for?

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yeah they might have screwed something up, the spike happens every season because master and diamond players are more likely to log back in on the day of the new season but its a particularly large spike this time, i was wondering if anyone knew why

i also notice the overall player pool is about 3x as larger as what it was last season.

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The player pool is roughly the same but I think more games are being played

https://www.rankedftw.com/stats/population/1v1/#v=2&r=-2&sy=c&sx=a

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The most plausible explanation is that Masters and Diamond ranked players log in much more frequently than lower level players, and so a greater percentage of them have logged in during the first few days of a season.

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Lol so if you login not so much you dia what a lol

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yes that is true you can see the spike at the end of every season but what i find strange is that the master spike is significantly larger than it usually is.

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Im only Gold 1v1 and platinum team, but my friend and I beat two master league players, won 2/5 placement and got put in master league.

I know we re talking 1’s here, but I thought that was strange.

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It’s because they finally decided to nerf the zerg after all these years so people that left the game because of zerg imbalance are coming back. I didn’t played for a longer time too because of imba zerg (I moved to SC1 atleast in the first game TvZ is pretty fun).

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that’s because of covid lockdown

a lot of games had similar population boom

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Does this data read MMR or does it read league? The game doesn’t demote you until next season the entire distribution will be shifted to the right. MMR is all that matters anyway so if you really really care about player A belonging in Masters or not you can look up his MMR and look at the current MMR cutoff.

I don’t really care whether there is a league demotion or not, but lack of is what throws these numbers off.

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Why do you think? The answer is obvious. They lowered the mmr requirement too much. Last season it was 4920 for M1. This season it’s 4780. All the other tiers lowered too (obviously). I got into M1 just by existing, not actually improving my skill. It’s probably the same for all the hardstuck D1 people. They just flew right into master rank with such an mmr change.

Yes

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There are time periods where the mmr/placing gets completely whack in the season. It’s possible the enemy team got in master but had similar mmr to yours.

Quality mayme

I disagree. Matchmaking times are still about the same, at least in my experience. It’s obviously because they lowered the standards like they do every season.

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Just look at the population graph: there were 50% (!) more people playing in the previous season than in the season before it.
Even F2P haven’t brought up so many players, however it did lowered the league borders (obviously).

Also we might consider possibility of MMR siphoning by people on the top. Serrals 7K MMR have to be drained from other people, right?