win rate in coh2/leaderboard/playercard

[Mr Madbull]

hi!

in reference to 1v1, i was wondering how come so many players have insane win rates like 60-70%? and i'm not talking about the best players, or even top 100 or so...

im ranked 100-200 with all factions yet every other game i play i face a top 50 player

matchmaking is supposed to match you with similar skill players, hence we should all have win rates around 50%.

i don't really care about win rate, but i'm just curious how can some people have such high win rates - if they'd be winning @ 70% they'd climb so fast, yet they stay there at rank 100-300

[ShodaN]

Originally posted by my style is UFO:

hi!

in reference to 1v1, i was wondering how come so many players have insane win rates like 60-70%? and i'm not talking about the best players, or even top 100 or so...

im ranked 100-200 with all factions yet every other game i play i face a top 50 player

matchmaking is supposed to match you with similar skill players, hence we should all have win rates around 50%.

i don't really care about win rate, but i'm just curious how can some people have such high win rates - if they'd be winning @ 70% they'd climb so fast, yet they stay there at rank 100-300

Because there's a huge skill rift (it's doesn't even qualify as just a gap anymore) in the community. Doesn't just go for 1vs1.

Basically it feels like there is no middle section anymore. You either have the dedicated players that sticked to the game this far, because they like it no matter what and can deal with it or you got the players that keep doing what they always did, because they never put any thought into their play to begin with.

[IGOTTAFINDBUBBA]

lol rank

[ck00021]

Yes the OP is quite right. It's not possible to have a 70% win rate if what they tell us about the ELO matchmaking is correct. Mathematically. Except for the very very few at the very top who beat everyone else back to 50% before they drop ranks.

Just goes to show there is an element of BS in every simplification.

[ShodaN]

Originally posted by ck00021:

Yes the OP is quite right. It's not possible to have a 70% win rate if what they tell us about the ELO matchmaking is correct. Mathematically. Except for the very very few at the very top who beat everyone else back to 50% before they drop ranks.

Just goes to show there is an element of BS in every simplification.

It is correct. It just doesn't work when there are not enough players that fill the skill level that a certain Elo score is meant to represent.

[Buz]

Maybe they're good but don't play much. Win, win, win, change faction, ELO decay... A few weeks later repeat.

[ShodaN]

Originally posted by lumpycustards:

Maybe they're good but don't play much. Win, win, win, change faction, ELO decay... A few weeks later repeat.

There is no Elo decay. Not to any noticable amount. You just get put on hold whenever you don't play for a while, so you aren't listed in the leaderboards at all. The underlying Elo score stays where it is afaik.