Dynamic Queue & Solo Queue - Nothing has changed
All of these stats are taken at or around the midway point of their respective seasons.
Season 3 http://i.imgur.com/Bqln4yy.png
- 37.4% Player base is Bronze 1 or below.
- 85% Player base is Silver 1 or below.
- Important to note that back in season 3 you could not fall out of a rank once you achieved it ie: Gold 5s could not be demoted.
- This was also the first season that used the LP system which replaced the ELO system.
- Meta was fleshed out but players were still doing just about everything at nearly every level of the game (ie: Jungle Teemo and still winning), mechanics was king, and game knowledge was not required to climb to diamond.
Season 4 & Season 5 http://www.manaless.com/2015/07/solo-queue-ladder-analysis-how-long.html
- 19% of season 4 Bronze players climbed out of bronze (due to season 3 being toxic with the ability to never be demoted and bottlenecks occurring)
- 27% of season 4 Silver players fell back to bronze (due to season 4 demotion being added)
- Roughly 50% of each bracket was able to return to their respective bracket within 6 months (important to note not everyone plays at the start of a season)
Now what else does the data show that is or is not occurring between season 4 and 5?
- Very small % of outliers. 0.01% of Bronze players got to Diamond. So that is either a bronze player who paid for a boost or a diamond player who sandbagged in season 4 for fun and climbed to diamond the following season. At any rate just shows the very minimal amount of boosting that even back in S4/S5 players were crying about.
- Small chunks of the player base from each bracket improves and climbs higher. This occurs every season.
- Every season the brackets slowly start evening out. This is to dispel the outlandish rumor that the system makes it so that 90% of the player base is in Bronze/Silver because higher up the ladder cannot statistically sustain a certain amount.
Simply not true, and you guys are such babies for thinking this.
* For 5 to win 5 must lose but that only confirms a more even distribution would exist throughout.
* Most players simply are not playing the game properly. This is another good reason why Dynamic Queue is so important.
* This will help those who are serious but 20% of their games are ruined due to trolls/afkers/ragers etc in elo hell, and find 4 likeminded serious players.
* You 5 will climb because you are serious, you will help bring more quality to the upper 50% of the ladder and make for a stronger ladder. Finally a season where the bottom 70% is below Gold and absolutely toxic and or demoralized.
Season 6 http://www.leagueofgraphs.com/rankings/rank-distribution/na
- Based on the previous link that showed S4/S5 changes 15% of Gold players climbed out of Gold. Here we see that Platinum has 7.6% of the player base. Makes sense as back in season 3 only 8.9% were Gold5+, and 1.7% were above Plat5. Again, a natural fleshing out progressive climb as certain players in lower elo start taking the game more seriously, and (surprise surprise) climb.
- 1.8% of the player base is Diamond which is higher than previous seasons, but you can see that major bottleneck that is occurring at D5. A bottleneck usually exists here, or in Season 4 at P1 due to "clamping". Could be explained by the horrid matchmaking D3+ players received making less players in D4/3/2/1 and more stuck in D5.
So What Now? Everyone who comes to these forums to cry about DQ are the same people who came here to cry about SQ. A certain percentage of the player base has refused to ever look at themselves and criticize the way they play in ranked. They instead opt to use excuses (boosters, trolls, afkers, and rage quitters). Those all exist but along a long enough timeline you will ALWAYS achieve your true rank. This was proven back in Season 1 when top tier players and youtube content/streamers would tank their elo to 0 and climb back above 1800 elo in as little as 14 days. Even then when it was proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that elo hell did NOT exist. You players ignored the evidence and plugged your ears and yelled, because the fantasy world you created for your "feelzies" helped you cope better than the reality that YOU belonged at whatever elo you were at.
That's my post 8 months ago calling you babies out. I'll never quit. This brings me too much joy. I wake up licking my lips wondering what today's ranked babies brought me to eat. You never disappoint. Every season a few climb out, but you, you the denial experts, you the adc teemo mains, and especially you ragers. You'll never climb. Never. You are coming to this forum to feed us your bullshit, and I'll be here. I'm not going anywhere. I need you in my life too much. I need to hit Diamond and hit up these forums to get into the minds of the baddies. I need you so much, and I love you all.
~Utility Backline You complete me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0qlRq9JtyY