Really much rating in arena (Plat)

[rickerd]

Hey guys,
Am I the only one who see that we get really much rating.
I saw a guy who was going 1/0 with 42 rating! (thumb up I think)
I'm going 5/1 (1 thumb up) with 112 rating
112 + 40 = 152 : 6 = 25,333333
Isn't that a bit much or is it intended to be so high?
This is in Plat, i see it is not in bronze league and silver gets only 13 rating and gold 8

[Calindu]

I find it strange too, yesterday I got 30 rating for a non-thumbs up win, and some people haves +40 rating per win.

[Vineroz]

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,36445.0.html

[dragonsdemesne]

Something's been screwed up with platinum arena the last few days.  Nobody seems to know what happened, though.

[rickerd]

I think it's stoped now

[UndeadSpider1990]

Surely in part to do with the fact there are many less players building Plat league decks?

[dragonsdemesne]

There's definitely a problem.  Look at this screenshot:



Look at SpikeSpiegel and XDrFaustusX, for example; their ratings are through the roof.  Previously, to get into the top 25, you needed a virtually perfect win streak to get into the top 25 in only 3 days.  I'm not saying they or anyone else did anything wrong, but I'm pointing out that whatever is happening to platinum has inflated their ratings by at least a factor of two, and many of the other ones are also far higher than usual.

This morning, I submitted a new platinum deck, and it debuted at 372 with a 0-0 record.  That's not normal... :p  It's 7-1 now with +76 rating, which seems about right, but it's still only 250th place, which is roughly where a new deck normally starts, give or take about 20 places.  If Zanz has changed the rating forumlae, he hasn't posted anything anywhere about it, and there is no way that we had anything like a mass exodus of platinum players or a ton of gold players suddenly graduate to platinum, or have everyone collectively changing their thumbs up habits or anything like that.

The only two things that can logically be happening are 1) Zanz changed something ingame and didn't post about it or 2) Someone hacked Elements and changed stuff and Zanz hasn't noticed yet.

edit: also, it's only happening to platinum; the other ones look normal to me.

[rickerd]

There's definitely a problem.  Look at this screenshot:



Look at SpikeSpiegel and XDrFaustusX, for example; their ratings are through the roof.  Previously, to get into the top 25, you needed a virtually perfect win streak to get into the top 25 in only 3 days.  I'm not saying they or anyone else did anything wrong, but I'm pointing out that whatever is happening to platinum has inflated their ratings by at least a factor of two, and many of the other ones are also far higher than usual.

This morning, I submitted a new platinum deck, and it debuted at 372 with a 0-0 record.  That's not normal... :p  It's 7-1 now with +76 rating, which seems about right, but it's still only 250th place, which is roughly where a new deck normally starts, give or take about 20 places.  If Zanz has changed the rating forumlae, he hasn't posted anything anywhere about it, and there is no way that we had anything like a mass exodus of platinum players or a ton of gold players suddenly graduate to platinum, or have everyone collectively changing their thumbs up habits or anything like that.

The only two things that can logically be happening are 1) Zanz changed something ingame and didn't post about it or 2) Someone hacked Elements and changed stuff and Zanz hasn't noticed yet.

edit: also, it's only happening to platinum; the other ones look normal to me.

Wow yeah indeed that's a lot of rating.
But is it over now?

[UndeadSpider1990]

There's definitely a problem.  Look at this screenshot:



Look at SpikeSpiegel and XDrFaustusX,...

Per win, yes their scores are very high. But note they also have only one Loss between the pair of them. Surely this has something to do with it?

Also compare SpikeSpiegel to his close competitor wave z: in four times as long, wave z has had barely over twice as many fights. Is it possible some people are just 'lucky' in the sense of how many players match up against their deck?

[Dm]

Look at Lai Shin. 'Nuff said.

[UndeadSpider1990]

Look at Lai Shin. 'Nuff said.

Age must make a difference to score too though. Look at jaymanfu: 8 more wins and 2 less losses than LaiShin, yet his score is more-or-less equal. It seems to me its only for the first day (but possibly a little beyond) that this anomaly happens. But who knows 

Spoiler for wild goose chase:

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[Dm]

Look at Lai Shin. 'Nuff said.

Age must make a difference to score too though. Look at jaymanfu: 8 more wins and 2 less losses than LaiShin, yet his score is more-or-less equal. It seems to me its only for the first day (but possibly a little beyond) that this anomaly happens. But who knows 

In which case a lot of people spammed the League and decided to randomly lose to Day 1 / Day 0 decks so they would get over the roof ratings. Not only that but apparently they decided to spam it just so much to eff up the rating completely and cause anomalies of some kind.

I don't think so.


Also, I'm not comparing it to anything. I'm saying that a 20-5 on top 19 is basically impossible.