Does rating seem to be inflating more slowly than usual this season?

PVP Arenas
1

Seems slow, especially for the 1st season of a new xpac.

2

you should switch off internet explorer man

3 Likes
3

It’s me! Lucky rogue

4

Yes, games at 1600 are super sweaty still. Pushing rival seems can’t be arsed to me tbh and I was 2100 in shuffle last season

5

Low participation, people playing other brackets like Shuff and Blitz

1 Like
6

From I understand it is 15/week.

Queued arms day 1 on season and I was 1500mmr, queued rsham 2nd week and I was 1515mmr.

7

It’s not low participation. Have you seen the numbers?

8

:face_with_peeking_eye: :face_with_peeking_eye: :face_with_open_eyes_and_hand_over_mouth:
ummm

9

i can answer this, let me finish my dungeon… So for solo shuffle:

DF season 1:

date approx. matches played matches difference per week avg mmr diff per week avg mmr(>12 wins) diff per week median mmr diff per week median mmr(>12 wins) diff per week std deviation(>12 wins)
End of Season 42,980,890 1684 1805 1759 1803 406
14/02/2023 28,759,971 1570 1666 1607 1649 360
7/02/2023 26,506,279 2,253,692 1,539 31 1,649 17 1,587 20 1,634 15 356 4
31/01/2023 23,923,998 2,582,281 1,497 42 1,631 18 1,561 26 1,616 18 350 6
23/01/2023 20,797,030 3,126,968 1449 48 1,605 26 1524 37 1590 26 342 8

Compared with TWW weeks:

date approx. matches played matches difference per week avg mmr diff per week avg mmr(>12 wins) diff per week median mmr diff per week median mmr(>12 wins) diff per week std deviation(>12 wins)
11/10/2024 9877584 1200 1538 1377 1544 216
30/09/2024 7415649 2461935 1127 73 1524 14 1317 60 1524 20 210
20/09/2024 4143186 3272463 1043 84 1510 14 1203 114 1516 8 201
12/09/2024 775177 3368009 881 162 1501 9 768 435 1508 8 184

Hope this helps answer your question. The key numbers to look at and compare are the differences per week for avg mmr(>12 wins) and differences per week for median mmr(>12 wins).

In conclusion the average MMR(>12 wins) went up by 17,18 and 26 MMR in DF season 1, TWW season 1 weeks are 14,14 and 9(less).

Note: this is from the Blizzard API only on those dates specified.

10

Yep, no one is playing due to terrible proposed balances and even worse decisions making it to production live servers.

11

Blizzard (alongside some of the more overzealous forum goers) seem to believe that being able to get high ratings early in a given season is a bad thing.

I’d personally see nothing wrong with the top of the ladder being 3k+ week 1 as long as a decay was implemented at r1 range.

Inflation is a stupid mechanic that should be removed entirely in favor of consistency throughout the season (and across seasons).

2 Likes