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This exactly. I play an online game that uses ranking, and your best bet for breaking a 1500 is actually playing the game at odd hours when there are only a sma
by kendallpark 9y ago
This exactly. I play an online game that uses ranking, and your best bet for breaking a 1500 is actually playing the game at odd hours when there are only a small amount of players online. Because of the distribution of the player pool, you're more likely to match with lower-ranking players (as there are limited number of similarly-ranked players). Then you slowly but surely creep up your ranking with very little risk.
- smogcutter 9y agoThen shouldn't your ranking fall again when you play in the full pool? If you're a strong enough player to maintain the higher ranking, you should reach it regardless.
- lostconfused 9y agoWell you don't have the option for off peak hours in a tournament setting. There's also obviously a high increase in risk as you progress towards the finals of a tournament.
- kendallpark 9y agoThe analogy here is that if you're good and throw your first match to get into losers, you'll be facing more people you're theoretically better than.
- Anderkent 9y ago'Breaking a 1500' and maximising rating are way different goals though. If you want as high a rating as possible, playing lower-rated players is probably not going to get you there - you're only getting a small increase per game.
- kendallpark 9y agoBut you're taking on less risk. If you play other people around your ranking it's easy to actually lose.
- Anderkent 9y agoSure; you're reducing variance at the cost of reducing expected gains in ranking.