Two of my friends played their provisional games with me. We won 9/10. They got Bronze 5. This makes no sense, I know it's kind an mmr thing, but they were ranked bronze 2 last season, so i expected them to get at least silver. Does anyone know what's going on? Is it a bug?
[slayer-pantheon-thumbs] No seems about right, according to what's been going on. You pretty much need an MMR considerably higher than Silver to land in silver. My Diamond friends all dropped to Plat when it happened(they all went at least 7-3), so you're gonna drop pretty much regardless, its a matter of how far you going to drop (some of my friends already climbed back into diamond so its fine, if you deserve a higher rank, you'll get there don't worry).
The highest you can get placed is platinum 1. This means that all of the diamond, master and challenger players get shoved down into platinum. This has a ripple effect causing platinum to get placed in gold, golds to get placed in silver, silver to get placed in bronze and bronzes to get shoved down to Bronze 5 since you can't get any lower. The logic behind it is it gives the high ranked players a new challenge to climb back up and it, in theory, sets up low ranked players to climb since they are placed in a league below their mmr.
There are a few other potential factors:
For one thing saying someone is in Bronze II is really very vague sort of way of saying what skill level a player is at. The League system is somewhat loosely correlated with a players hidden ELO. So you can't actually use the fact that they were ranked Bronze II to precisely predict where they will end up.
A second potential factor is that accounts playing ranked for the first time don't have the decayed hidden ELO of accounts that ended last season in the general vicinity of Bronze (in terms of their hidden ELO). This means that new accounts can often place higher (say Silver) than their Bronze counterparts of equal skill level.
Neither of these factors is a bug, but it can upset players that don't understand how the system actually works.
Alright, I understand. It just kind of sucks that we got bronze 5. >_<
So weird. I was gold 5 last season, got 6 wins 4 loses, ended up in....gold 5 again. I was looking forward to greeting bronze teammates zz.
No, just bugged
