We Need a Division for Silver

Incarceration·Mar 5, 2017·1 votes·577 views

Between the top 24.6% and the top 63%, there is a tier called Silver to house all these players.

Don't you see something wrong with this?

5 Comments

GrimspeakeMar 5, 20171 votes

Agreed. Silver 5 should be renamed - just finished my first provisionals

Chibi BronzlifeMar 5, 20171 votes

ummm what?

IncarcerationMar 5, 20171 votes

Just create another tier. You realize that Silver has way too many players, right?

Chibi BronzlifeMar 5, 20171 votes

I think it's fine, it's not like you have to beat every member of silver to get out. I'd say about half of silver are people who get there and just stop playing ranked. Now having all these players in silver means it's easier to find a game, dividing them is going to make it harder to play ranked, so no I don't think another division of this group is necessary.

Mysticman89Mar 5, 20171 votes

The idea is that tiers/divisions reflect a certain ELO/MMR, not necessarily to divide the player base into groups based on percentile or similar. It just happens that the majority of players are around the elo represented by silver.

Adding an additional tier wouldn't change how skilled most players are, and theres always going to be an average skill level where the majority of players are going to fall. A new tier might become the new most populated one, or maybe it'd remain silver, but it wouldn't change matchmaking at all (which is strictly mmr based), plus it might confuse peoples intuitions about how much better one tier is from another if theres two tiers housing people of almost the same skill level, when the difference between most other tiers is somewhat more significant.