S4 Rank DIstributions?

Lights And Magic·2/10/2015, 6:56:55 AM·1 votes·1,658 views

Being an avid watcher of streams I hear people commonly talk about their rank in the chat. Most of the people say that they're generally between Gold and Diamond. This doesn't sound true to me since an overwhelming percent of league players are Bronze. So I started wondering if there was a chart somewhere of the distribution of ranks/tiers at the end of Season 4 (since a lot of ranks right now aren't extremely accurate because of the recent reset) to see if the majority of league players are either Bronze or not Bronze (Silver to Challenger). Anyone got any info on this?

3 Comments

Deep Terror Nami2/10/2015, 7:59:04 AM1 votes

Riot has said on many occasions that the vast majority of people are in Silver. Right at the beginning of this season, it may have shifted to Bronze because everyone had their MMR dropped (resulting in many demotions after Placements), but if it hasn't already, it will climb right back up to Silver.

As for specific numbers, sorry I don't have this. I will do a quick search though.

SmokingPuffin2/10/2015, 8:27:51 AM1 votes

http://www.lolsummoners.com/stats

This chart is out of date. It's from season 3, where demotion from division 5 was only possible through inactivity. That's why you see the big stacks of players in each division 5. They have since smoothed that out some, but the intended overall share of each league tier is about the same as it is in this chart.

http://na.op.gg/statistics/tier/

This chart is current. It's going to change because they effectively demoted all players by an average of 3 divisions, so don't be surprised if bronze is the largest category of players today. For now, though, most League ranked players are bronze, and only 10k out of 730k ranked players are in diamond.