Higher variance / lower skill cap on common decks imo (but I’m just reading that into the stats because I dislike NEH and Noise)
I think there were a lot less overall skilled players compared to this league. I have played in all of them, this one has more good players than any of the previous leagues imo.
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It just makes sense as times goes on, the overall skill of the player base putting time and effort into getting better, will in general get better. Playing lots of games against people taking the game seriously will give you more to think about, see things you might not have seen, prepare you etc.
This is me just guessing though, when I played OCTGN I got better, I haven’t put time into this season. There is no store championship/regionals to prepare for, so I haven’t grinded OCTGN at all.
Never to early to train for worlds!
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I am not attending :P. In a few years expect to see me at every worlds/nationals though if this game is still going strong :).
Yeah I had the same issue when I was in the BGG-5 League. I reached mid 1700s and then just felt I didn’t want to play anymore because bad luck would be extremely punishing. They need to use a different system than ELO that doesn’t punish the higher-ranked players so much.
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Thank you Wosho and moioioi for the matches. Hopefully I didn’t noob it up too much. Playing with such diverse and skilled people is a dramatic change of pace from my very, very small local scene. Loving it!
Isotropic uses trueskill (or some variant) for its rating. Your rating is a skill estimate, and an uncertainty. Your official “rank” is the floor of that range (so if you’re 30 +/- 8, you are ranked 22. The way he combats “parking” is to have your uncertainty decay over time… so that if you go on vacation for a month, you’ll fall off the leaderboard naturally.
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Can we just change the code for the K-factor to be adjusted based on number of games played?
Any word in whether this will be top 16 or 8? Or on prize pool?
At the same time it sounds like the ratings system is doing what it is supposed to. You’re not supposed to be able to keep climbing indefinitely.
He told me that he sold it all to buy a truckload of ice cream.
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Won’t the be a cut to a top 256?
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Seems like no one is really playing anymore. Has everyone resigned themselves that no one can beat @Nordrunner?
It does seem like it’s taken longer waiting to find an opponent this past week or two.
Seems like the best/safest way to get there is to stomp low-rating players (that you can beat pretty much every game). I dont want to do that.
Final decision on this. It will be a cut to Top 8.
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Simple - top 8 cut is to blame. I know I won’t risk missing the cut now while sitting on the 2nd place, and I suspect other guys making the cut as of now won’t either. On the other hand if there was no cut, highly ranked people would play to the last day to catch nords.