- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
LoveNub writes:
I had a 15 game win streak in team slayer carrying my whole team most of the time and only leveled up twice oh and also i was playing with 40s when im a 30 so by what you say about how the true skill works i should have been leveling faster than them...
Is this happening to anyone else?
Actually, you being a 30 individually doesn't matter as much for your personal leveling. Neither does carrying the team. Not in a team hopper, anyways. Let me show you why...
Win 1
Win 2
Win 3
Win 4
Loss
Okay, I've taken the liberty of linking to the 4 games immediately after you hit 32 in your streak, and the loss that dropped you down to 31 again.
In those 4 wins, your team level summed up to 3 to 10 more than your opponents in each match. Also, no teams you played against had two forties on the team. Higher levels are weighted more in the team skill summation. The way the system works, those matches were uneven enough to give your team very little in the way of skill advancement.
However, your one loss was against a team only 1 skill level above yours. In addition, according to skill weighting, their team skill (while numerically 1 superior) was probably placed lower than your team's skill. That loss was weighted more heavily than the wins were.
You must have had a higher Sigma than your 42 teammate, as he didn't drop a skill point there.
By the way trueskill works, in a team game, everyone on the winning team is handed the same amount of Mu. Then, the Mu gained is adjusted by a multiple (arbitrarily set by Bungie and Microsoft) of each player's personal Sigma. Only THEN is the Mu added to your total.
So you see, in a team game with team members of uneven rank, if everyone has the same sigma, everyone will rank up at RELATIVELY the same pace. Lower levels seem to rank up more in team games because lower levels TEND to have a lower Sigma, but this is not always true.
P.S. Great no-scope screenshot.
P.P.S. I think your streak was great, even if the Trueskill system didn't. But you DID go up two ranks, which is a lot (over only 15 or so games) for someone who's played as many games as you. Keep it up, the system's re-evaluating your skill.
[Edited on 11.14.2007 5:11 AM PST]