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hey guys, my friend boss syrup recently lost his 50 in snipes and im kind of confused because he was waaaayyyy more wins than losses on it in total i would think. and he just goes on 3 5 games losing streaks (around 5 games) and loses it. which brings me to my question- do u lose your 50 after a losing streak despite how many more wins you have on your 50 than losses, or do u lose your 50 when ur total losses are 1 more than ur total wins playing on the 50?

  • 05.08.2011 8:05 PM PDT

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You lose your 50 if you lose against people with terrible accounts multiple times - no matter how well you think you have "locked it in"

  • 05.08.2011 8:16 PM PDT
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I always thought that if you lose one more game than you have won on your current rank you go down no matter what, but I think it has more to do with the win/loss of your opponents. If your friend lost to a bunch of boosters that were playing legit, then the chances of him going down are far higher because the system assumes he must suck dick to lose to players with terrible records. Then again if he wins against them it will barely affect 'locking' his 50 in place because the system expects you to win easily anyway.

So he could have won a lot of matches against boosters ( still legit if they were trying obviously ) but the system just goes meh, no big deal. Then he could lose just a few against them and the system will go WTF this kid is horrible! And drop his rank.

It's flawed, but that's ze way ze cookie crumbles lol

  • 05.08.2011 8:18 PM PDT

Don't even get me started.


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You lose your 50 if you lose against people with terrible accounts multiple times - no matter how well you think you have "locked it in"

This. Picture a progress bar as a player's rank relative to the number ahead of it. A 50 with no wins on it has an empty progress bar. As that person wins more games, the progress bar fills up. As that person loses games, the progress bar begins to lose what it had. As more games are collectively played, the average amount of impact each game has decreases. However, when that person wins (or loses) a game that appears to be one-sided (winning a game that ranks say they should lose and vice-versa) to the ranking system, the bar moves more.

  • 05.08.2011 8:24 PM PDT
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Brother's account. My main is Guillotineee

Im sure Boss Syrup will not have a problem getting it back.

  • 05.08.2011 8:38 PM PDT

WOO WOO SWAG

maybe he just sucks ass

  • 05.08.2011 8:44 PM PDT
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You are all wrong. See once you get a 50 it gets locked depending on who you play.

If you play against bad people and win for the most part with an occasional loss then you will lose the 50 pretty easily regardless how many wins you have.

To really lock in a 50 you have to beat the kids who dont lose very often.

  • 05.08.2011 9:07 PM PDT
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Meags, you're not right either..

There's no such thing as "locking it in".

The ranking system, simply put, works on 4 rules of expectancy.

Rule 1) If you're expected to win, and you win, you rank up slowly.

Rule 2) If you're expected to lose, and you win, you rank up faster (this is the principle of boosting).

Rule 3) If you're expected to lose and you lose, you rank down slowly (hence why a deranked account takes AAAAGES to derank)

Rule 4) If you're expected to win, and you lose, you rank down faster.

That last one is why Syrup deranked.

If Boss Syrup is Syrup Sipper (or whatever), then I'm sure he'll get it back in no time!

  • 05.08.2011 9:17 PM PDT

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Posted by: Mike Huntt
Meags, you're not right either..

There's no such thing as "locking it in".

The ranking system, simply put, works on 4 rules of expectancy.

Rule 1) If you're expected to win, and you win, you rank up slowly.

Rule 2) If you're expected to lose, and you win, you rank up faster (this is the principle of boosting).

Rule 3) If you're expected to lose and you lose, you rank down slowly (hence why a deranked account takes AAAAGES to derank)

Rule 4) If you're expected to win, and you lose, you rank down faster.

^

  • 05.08.2011 9:21 PM PDT
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^^^ uhhhh that was basically what I said...

  • 05.08.2011 9:22 PM PDT

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neat

  • 05.08.2011 9:23 PM PDT

damn right, my recon is better then yours!


Posted by: ghoulies113
I always thought that if you lose one more game than you have won on your current rank you go down no matter what, but I think it has more to do with the win/loss of your opponents. If your friend lost to a bunch of boosters that were playing legit, then the chances of him going down are far higher because the system assumes he must suck dick to lose to players with terrible records. Then again if he wins against them it will barely affect 'locking' his 50 in place because the system expects you to win easily anyway.

So he could have won a lot of matches against boosters ( still legit if they were trying obviously ) but the system just goes meh, no big deal. Then he could lose just a few against them and the system will go WTF this kid is horrible! And drop his rank.

It's flawed, but that's ze way ze cookie crumbles lol

I thought the same exact thing, how ever i purposly sucked to get to a lowerer highest skill so i can get some stupid kids that don't know how to play to line up and shoot them with a laser. It worked but I lost my rank. =/

  • 05.08.2011 9:30 PM PDT