Posted 29 September 2015 - 10:19 PM

I find it interesting that the first three charts appear to show a pretty nice distribution of stats across the tiers, implying the tiers are actually pretty good, despite us knowing that's not the case for anyone who spends most of their time playing CW or anyone who simply hasn't played the game much in the past six months.

Kiiyor, on 29 September 2015 - 09:36 PM, said:

This is truly, truly excellent. Some of those outliers on the KDR/WLR chart are very interesting indeed.



The odd-looking distribution on the KDR WLR corollary chart is primarily the result of 2 years (since the stat reset) (and, January through August, so still the vast majority of the data affecting PSR as well) of a matchmaker that tried to force everyone toward a 1:1 WLR. This is why the previous chart showing an almost complete lack of correlation between matches played and KDR looks so different. When we take WLR out of the equation, we see a much more natural widespread distribution.And some of us suffered under that stupid WLR-focused matchmaker in solo queue for three years of grinding out mech chassis, and only recently emerged at the top of the stack (260+ individual mech variants ground out) and started playing mechs we actually enjoy and more group queue than solo queue. But we're saddled with years of data created while grinding, so our natural KDR is actually suppressed. It's nice that it's finally rising but it takes forever because there is such a mountain of matches already played so each new match played moves the KDR needle very, very little.

Edited by jay35, 29 September 2015 - 10:21 PM.