New balance ideas for ranked point and promotion system

Vash The Stamped·5/3/2015, 3:21:58 AM·6 votes·770 views

So I've been playing league for 2 seasons now. I win about 50-55 % of my games. According to RIOT I should be advancing, but in fact I've dropped to the bottom. After paying attention to about 100 games I think I've figured out why.

-wins don't give enough points -losses take away too many points -losses outweigh wins in terms of being demoted -after being demoted you drop to 75-79 points -after being promoted you start at 0 points

Here are some examples

Immediately after ranking here is an example of what can happen (This exact thing did in fact happen to me) 3 wins, +30 points 1 loss, -26 points (now at 4 points) 1 win, +7 points (now at 11 points) 2 losses, demoted

In this example, we have 3 wins right after a promotion, but its not enough to secure the rank.

Loosing only 1 game at 0 points is enough for a demotion, but you need to win 2/3 to promote.

Now for suggestions

As often happens in lower ranked games, people rage quit or d/c. This should reduce the penalty of loosing the game to the other players, as its not something under the control of a player.

Another suggestion here is to make the point gain/loss modifier less significant. loosing 26 points and gaining only 7 is a pretty extreme gap.

Final suggestion is to start a player off with a 15 or 25 points buffer after gaining a rank.

Even though these mostly aren't an issue in gold or higher, it does have a huge impact on bronze and silver, and will help actual good players get into better ranks, while keeping the less skilled players in the lower ranks.

Please feel free to input your suggestions, comments, or ideas.

This is NOT a place to bitch about ELO hell.

7 Comments

pro crastinat0r5/3/2015, 4:17:01 AM4 votes

your ranked w/l is 61/72

you are losing more games than you are winning

you should not be advancing

you are losing more points for losses than you are winning because your MMR is too low compared to your LP ranking. currently I gain ~20LP for wins and l lose ~15lp for losses because currently my MMR is slightly higher than my LP rating.

Wolfram Oxford5/3/2015, 3:38:20 AM1 votes

You should check out my post :)

disregardable5/3/2015, 3:51:07 AM1 votes

Your rank is separate from your MMR. You know that. Deal with it.

Narasimha5/3/2015, 4:20:15 AM1 votes

If you're losing 26 lp, then that means the game is trying to tell you something. You should be losing only around 10-17 if you're at the right mmr, and you should be gaining around 20-25.

Vash The Stamped5/3/2015, 7:52:05 AM1 votes

I'm not going to claim to know what MMR is at all. If you can briefly explain how that ties into ranked games that would help. also my w/l ratio is for recently, part of my last 100 games. I sucked when i first started.