It may be nothing to do with cheating. Lucky streaks in matchmaking in lower leagues can give huge rating which impossible to get in really competitive environment like Kyber, especially combined with new "squish" algorithm which, in fact, add pretty big amount of points to players in lower leagues.
Good to see the matchmaking algorithms working as coded. It's not a bug, it's a feature.
I don’t think you game blame matchmaking for people cheating.
Is it cheating though? Or just evidence that the squish algorithm isn’t founded on the most rigorous maths?
True could well be. A (very) quick glance at his gac history shows easy matchups and no suspicious activity. Must be one helluva algorithm then to place him that high.
If you look at the players GAC history, they had a massive 300 plus SR jump from Chromium in Oct and an even bigger 400 plus jump in Nov - I don’t see any evidence they’ve done much wrong. It does however illustrate at least one of the flaws with the squish (add to the long list)
No, it is the transfer from the old ranking to the new. As he did not play gac for a long time, his league stayed the same but his rating was not adjusted. As the average rating has gone down over time, he had a rating much higer then the current top k1. and then he can only get promoted to new league at end of event, so took him three cycles to reach kyber. now his long road down starts. This is not a problem of matchmaking or squish, but the fact that his skill rating was never adjusted to the current environment. No fault of the player at all.
No, it is the transfer from the old ranking to the new. As he did not play gac for a long time, his league stayed the same but his rating was not adjusted.
It's indeed no fault of the player but I don't get this "rating adjustment" part. He was actively playing at least from September, according to swgoh.gg GAC history. What and why exactly was "adjusted" in such strange way at Oct 10 and Nov 7?
One of my recent matches was a case of bad skill rating assignment. They had like 5 million GP, no GLs, etc. Their history showed a Carbonite match with an insanely high skill rating, then a Bronzium match, and then suddenly they catapulated to K1 because of their SR. They were on a consistent losing streak since that point because they couldn't compete.
I wasn't sure if it was because they took a break and came back and that's why their SR was messed up, but stuff like this is definitely happening. I couldn't see any signs of cheating. But for this person, it just seemed like they were destined to stay on a losing steak until they dropped to where they were supposed to be.
This has nothing to do with cheating. This is just the algorithm/calculations being broken, unintentionally. I've randomly noticed it a few weeks ago but forgot to make a post here on the forums about it. For some reason some people are passively gaining rating points for not playing, and some others are getting massive rating boosts during the skill squish (we're talking 500+ points, essentially making them skip an entire league with their promotion). This will not be the first person to be #1 in K1 that should not be there. If you check the lower leagues, many of them have players that have absolutely crazy scores because of broken calculations/algorithm:
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CG doing bad his job as usual.
I don’t think you game blame matchmaking for people cheating.
Is it cheating though? Or just evidence that the squish algorithm isn’t founded on the most rigorous maths?
True could well be. A (very) quick glance at his gac history shows easy matchups and no suspicious activity. Must be one helluva algorithm then to place him that high.
It's indeed no fault of the player but I don't get this "rating adjustment" part. He was actively playing at least from September, according to swgoh.gg GAC history. What and why exactly was "adjusted" in such strange way at Oct 10 and Nov 7?
I wasn't sure if it was because they took a break and came back and that's why their SR was messed up, but stuff like this is definitely happening. I couldn't see any signs of cheating. But for this person, it just seemed like they were destined to stay on a losing steak until they dropped to where they were supposed to be.
Huh? Are you trolling? There’s no way a player with that roster could or should be at the top of K1 by skill. None.
its a point worth missing.