POLL: Will you sit this season out?

FuntaC·Jan 22, 2016·2 votes·824 views

Here is a quote from Leaguecast 211: 14:05 - 14:10 "Everyone who's high elo gets reset to pretty well like the same point-ish, and then everyone who's super low elo gets bring up, brought up a little bit."

The expectation of starting every season from scratch is the common idea for any seasonal sport. That is not the way LoL works, but there is still a reset. The quoted speaker expected a changing of elos known as a reversion to mean. Most sports start every team equally by record, so the mean score is absolute. LoL uses a soft reset, which should meet the expectation stated in the quote. However, it appears that every established ranked account has gone down.

Hence this poll. Since the people in charge of the ranking system use an unexpected rationale that is perceived as harmful to the established majority, will you be sitting this season out? Also, if you will sit this season out, please identify whether you will do so out of protest or a lack of faith in the responsible people.

11 Comments

DREADN0UGHTJan 22, 20164 votes

I will still llau ranks since I feel its the only way I can get serious and focused people on my squad.

In norms people just play for shits and giggles.

FuntaCJan 22, 20162 votes

Agree. Matchmaking should be tailored differently for non-ranked games. Ranked games should always give players the ability to prove they are better than their current rank by judging their win rate in a spread of (supposedly) underdog matches, even matches, and advantaged matches. That would be a proper implementation of a truth algorithm for a ranked seasonal sport. Last season's rating freeze occurred because a poorly implemented truth algorithm.

SerevasJan 22, 20162 votes

It's a soft MMR reset, so yes all high elos end up at about the same point as the highest you can get placed out of placements is plat 1, so typically everyone in mid to high diamond and above will place plat 1 out of placements.

This is where the speaker is incorrect, the soft reset always drops people lower than they were before. It did it last year for the same conditions, now this year it has too, which is what most people actually expected.

FuntaCJan 22, 20161 votes

A player that does not increase elo as much as the artificial subraction of elo points will eventually be reduced to zero points, theoretically.

Is that reasonable to you?
Should a player end up in Bronze V if that player gets better with each game, but does not have the time to accrue enough elo points to offset the new season subraction?

SerevasJan 22, 20162 votes

I personally don't think the subtraction at it's current level is reasonable at all, especially when it's done on an invisible number that we have no ability to see our influence over. It's not enough to make me stop playing ranked at all, but it does have the necessary thing of stopping people from hitting gold, then just going through promos every year and sitting there to reap season rewards.

How would you measure if they're getting better with each game? Is it KDA? CS? Varying functions of the role they're playing? What if they have off games? What if they do well and their entire team is awful so it drags down their performance? If you don't have the time to dedicate to playing ranked, just play normals, if you're hardcore enough to want to play ranked you should be making time for it, if you don't have the dedication to give it the time it needs just stick to casual normal games, you technically rank up while doing that as you see MMR increases to play against better and better opponents so you're at no real disadvantage.

ThisFknGuyJan 24, 20162 votes

I am extremely frustrated this season, I played a ton during preseason and improved my play last season. all of my statistics have increased but my rank continues to drop. I refuse to just grind meaninglessly, being paired constantly with people, in high silver and low gold, winning repeatedly with good scores and being told your bronze 4 is bs. one person suggests its 100% based on the # of promo wins, well thats a shit assessment. why implement a system of character play rating that is meaningless? I scored and S in half of my plays! I've never been a bronze 4 and I'm not now. I've played since shortly after release but this placement literally makes me feel like everything I did preseason was completely meaningless. not that riot or the internet trolls give a shit but I'm done. I uninstalled today I'm not doing a ridiculous bronze climb again I dont have time to waste every day with leavers and smurf ass troll accounts, deuces.

FuntaCJan 24, 20161 votes

Thank you for this post!

Many people feel the same or worse, but their feeling about this very dishonorable treatment of players will not be read because the players have completely stopped participating - game, forums, all of it.

Muted SummonerJan 25, 20162 votes

I won't be playing due to the fact they think fiddlesticks is in a fine niche area. The same thing that was said for ashe for years. Fiddle is in a perfect area to get changed in the mage department. I won't be buying any more skins either. They made me salty. Fiddle has been nerfed so hard and others were buffed to the point he has fallen out of viability.

FuntaCJan 25, 20161 votes

Thank you for sharing your feelings about the problem you have experienced. It does seem like there is too much done to advantage or disadvantage champions for the purpose of cycling the meta.