- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Domino Theory 2
That's the thing: I'm NOT losing 'enough' in Team SWAT. According to Microsoft's Research site about TrueSkill, the TrueSkill system needs anywhere from 46-140 games to identify your TrueSkill in a playlist that incorporates 2 teams with 4 players on each team. As of right now, my win/loss ratio in the playlist is 97%.
Once I reach my 'TrueSkill' in Team SWAT (and assuming I keep the momentum that I have now in regards to win/losses), I should be leveling up much quicker in Team SWAT around the 40s to a 50 than I would in Team Slayer (which I've played ALOT in and have a much lower win/loss ratio percentage). As this point, it would take me 12-15 wins to go up one rank from a 45 in TS considering all the games I've played in it, and losing a lot of my first couple games, but winning a lot of my recent games NOW.
EDIT: What I'm trying to say is that in Team Slayer, I started out very inconsistent. Winning some, losing some, etc.. for the first few games the TrueSkill needed to asses where I should be. However, in Team SWAT, I'm going in very consistenly, winning A LOT of games, losing only 3 so far. This should give the TrueSkill system a good look in terms of assessing my TrueSkill in Team SWAT, thus allowing me to not go through 15 consecutive wins to go up one rank around the 40s, compared to Team Slayer. See what I mean?
It's like leaving a very good first impression when you first meet a woman, so she ends up thinking very highly of you from the get go compared to leaving an okay to bad first impression, but recently beginning to make her like you as everyday goes by, thus making her uncomfortable in whether or not to continue trusting you, wanting to be with you, etc.
Well you'ver pretty much answered your own question I think. Ranking will be easier in SWAT because you have high sigma...assuming you don't make the mistakes we have highlighted within this large thread:
1) Playing with the same people all the time
2) Never losing
Ranking from 40-50 may be easier in theory, but in reality it won't be because your matchmaking quality will deteriorate heavily (due to less people).