User blog:Busecatu/Why Ranked System is broken.

Hello. I'd like to point out why, in my humble opinion, the current Ranked Games Divisions and League system is broken and not reflecting the actual players' skills.I'd much appreciate your feedbacks, since i know i may make some mistakes (i talk on my personal and my friends' experience) and i won't have any problem admitting i was wrong, if someone would point me out the things are different from what i believe.

To start, let's consider this situation: 20 ranked games played, 10 games won and 10 lost.

• 1st Scenario: one wins 10 games in a row, then he loses the rest of the matches. With the first 10 qualifying games won, one could be put in Gold Division 2 or 3 (i have a friend in Gold 3 after 8/10 games won). After the 10 losses streak, one should at most get demoted to the previous Division.

• 2nd Scenario: one loses 10 games in a row, then he wins the rest of the matches. With the first 10 qualifying games lost, one should be put in Bronze Division 5 (more or less). After the 10 games winning streak, one should be promoted to the next one or two Division (i think).

Basically, the two players would have the same number of games played and the same win/lose ratio but, at the end of the 20 games, the first one would be Gold Division, the second one would be Bronze. Is this a good system for ranking players on a personal skill basis? I don't think so.

The first 10 qualifying games are a terrible way to start ranking players and it's the main reason why we can find really good players stuck in low Divisions as well as unskilled players in higher ones, ultimately compromising the much needed balance in any rank system.