Glicko-2 Rating System

That's the story ANet spoon-feeds us every time we complain about Sorrow's Furnace being paired with us. "You guys fought hard the first week and beat them; you can do it again!" What really happened was that the top wuv-wuv guilds on green team got depressed with being moved down from tier seven to eight and just decided not to participate in battle for that week. Guesting and server transfer costs were to be implemented the following week, and ANet had promised us that a soft reset would be enforced in order to reverse the damage that bandwagoning had caused. In Furnace's mind, what was the point of even trying for that final week?

But then, of course, ANet never did implement that soft reset. And Charlie Sheen suddenly appeared on the Eternal Battlegrounds, his cocky smile etched across his cheeks, chuckling to us, "Wanna'play?"

Not that wvw and basketball have much in common, but Florida Gulf Coast is in the process of proving that you actually have to make the match to find out if someone's worthy of it. Every year there's a story like that, and it's why people love the NCAA tournament even if basketball isn't normally their thing.

I don't think anyone who's really looked at this believes that this is and has been the best possible matchup for us. The fact that nobody has any direct information about tier 7 vs 8 is what's wrong with the system. Good matchmaking is about information gain, and there is a lot of information to be gained by mixing tiers 7 and 8, and none to be gained by making the same match over and over again for...wow, are we about to enter the fourth month? Glicko itself is fine, but the way they're applying it is a bit off. It's not even off by that much, really; there are some relatively easy things to try. I think they're afraid of being expected to endlessly tweak the algorithm when it doesn't produce perfect results for what amounts to a relatively small portion of the playerbase.

That said, I think we're a lot more beat up than we were three months ago, and the tier 7 servers have all been doing pretty well from being in a healthy matchup. But complex things will happen when the matchup actually changes, so it's anybody's guess.

I think ppl are well aware of my ranting about this on the GW2 forums but now i can do it here

put a 850-900 minimum rating on the system. A "Floor" as it is commonly referred to would be all sf needs to get out and any other future team that lands in T8 and deserves a shot at T7.

Also its an easy implemented system (Anet wont have to do much to put it in place) this not only fixes the current situation but all future cases of this.

A reset to 1500 rating for all servers will do more harm than good. Just imagine if we go paired with JQ! also imagine the "Bitching" that T1-2-3 servers would do (proof of this is why they didn't reset the ratings to 1500 in the 1st place) but the biggest problem with a 1500 reset is eventually we will be back in this position of T8 having a 300-400 point gap.

if anyone can find a reason why a 850-900 rating Floor is NOT a good way to go. Post it and quote this post i would like to see if anyone has and better ideas

Edit: BTW (off topic a bit) i have a feeling NSP is coming to T8??? have a look at the current machup i thought HOD or GOM would come down but it looks like by the time SF gets enough rating NSP will be at the bottom of T7.