Kyber 1 Shrinking?
November 8, 2022 1:31AM
edited November 2022
2 seasons ago ended with a score of 3864 and started next season 89 points lower at 3775. Last season ended at 3804 and starting this season at 3724.
That's 2 wins per season being taken away when it's a struggle to go 5 and 4.
Curious if others are seeing this in Kyber 1.
That's 2 wins per season being taken away when it's a struggle to go 5 and 4.
Curious if others are seeing this in Kyber 1.
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Exactly. The more people fall down the less they have to give out.
Apparently we are examples of 5,147 as noted from above in K1. Not sure what the cut off was for better than before but pushing more out the of the top is definitely reducing the “better than before” club.
Lots of wiggle room for someone like me who has been in low k1 nearly all the time.
I don't mind or care anymore, I'll always be somewhere in k1-2-3. There comes matches sometime that's neck to neck which I enjoy...rarely. I'll take that and make do.
I don't recall anyone saying it would keep the division sizes constant. At least for my part, as a "supporter", I assumed the squish was so CG could adjust the division sizes as they saw fit--i.e. the opposite of keeping them constant. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
However, what I have never been a supporter of is CG's lack of communication regarding the squish.
But that doesn't work either. I have gained 3 good teams in a short amount of time, I should at least keep my position or even climb a bit, yet this is the 2nd GAC season I am now 1 division lower. It doesn't help that my brackets are filled with accounts that are bigger than mine, have at least 1 GL more and actually would belong in K5 or 4, which at this point is the norm. So it's not just the squish, wich of course pushes them further down, but also less participation in 3v3, lack of participation in general, sandbagging etc.
Haha dito.
https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/251844/developer-q-a-grand-arena-championship-changes-12-02/p1
If they are still trying to keep up with that goal, the conclusion would be that the overall GAC population has been shrinking.
We know that the population has been shrinking, so there's that.
Last post I saw on reddit had it around 300k, which is down from the 420k at the launch of GAC2.
Then, end of season, K1 players lose 80-200 skill rating. The floor remains static. I went 5-4 last season and I think I dropped 70ish skill. To remain at the same skill rating I'd have to 6-3 or better.
I honestly think that CG isn't really aware of the effect of skill squish, at least the public facing employees.
"Iirc around 16k people started in kyber 1 in season 1. It’s less than 6k now." by @Drathuk916
Sorry but you can't explain away the change in sizes simply by quitters.
Not entirely clear what you’re taking exception too. First season had around 343k according to swgoh.gg. I forget the poster before Scott over there but you can find it yourself. So around 34kish fewer accounts are signing up each season. Kyber league has shrunk from 88k to under 50k. So yes obviously not all accounts that have quit were in kyber league. However I certainly believe more than half of the accounts that no longer signup were in kyber league. This still leaves a sizable amount of accounts to be demoted through inactive play but still signing up and to much much lesser extent poor players being pushed out of kyber.
I agree the squish has had an intended effect of pushing people out of kyber or more correctly making it more difficult for players from aurodium to play well enough to replace those playing badly enough in kyber who earn a demotion. But I don’t think it is larger than the effect of quitting players is having.
Here are players in k4 and k5:
They got an increase in points from the squish.
The squish happens to everyone in a league, and pushes them towards the middle of division 3 of their league. The same points get applied to every player on a given skill rating. The players around you do not get changed by the squish. Your matchups are unaffected by the squish.
If you are near the boundary of your division you may get moved. Some div4 and div5 players would have been moved up.
It doesn't nullify your wins, as your score is only used to compare you to other players, all subject to the squish too.
K1 should be about 2% of active players. Each league is 20% of players, div1 is 10% of that. I haven't seen anything to indicate this has been changed.