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Subject: Skill Gap, Please Explain
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While it is believed that this forum is filled with trolls, I'm going to pretend that this is incorrect and politely ask the Reach forum what the skill gap is. I've never quite understood it.

Please don't be rude in your responses. Thanks.

  • 11.26.2011 4:26 PM PDT
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A wide skill gap means better players will win most of the time.

  • 11.26.2011 4:27 PM PDT
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Thank you. But what exactly is the skill gap? Does that just mean that the better you are at the game, the better you will actually do in the game?
Posted by: Killer VVhale
A wide skill gap means better players will win most of the time.

  • 11.26.2011 4:28 PM PDT

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Bigger skill gap = better players winning most of the time like they should.


Lower skill gap means noobs can win when they should of lost.

  • 11.26.2011 4:28 PM PDT

Posted by: Revelata Secreto
what exactly is the skill gap?
Skill gap refers to the potential for stratification of players based on their capacities within the game.

[Edited on 11.26.2011 4:38 PM PST]

  • 11.26.2011 4:37 PM PDT

Flash Kicks beat Armor Lock.

TheLab.

Perhaps the best definition of a skill gap is this:

Easy to pick up, hard to master.

A new player should be able to pick up the game and understand it somewhat easily.

A veteran player, who usually will have more skill, will be able to know and do things on a consistent basis that the new players could not do.

Example:

When a new player picks up Street Fighter, throwing a simple Hadouken might be hard for them, but grasping the idea of punching and kicking will be easy.

A veteran player will be able to do that Hadouken without even thinking and be able to use it in ways the new player hadn't even thought out.

The smaller the skill gap, the easier it is for lower end/newer players to keep up with the higher end/older players.

  • 11.26.2011 4:40 PM PDT

The skill gap is the difference in performance between an experienced player and an inexperienced player. This is created due to the experienced player's better understanding of game mechanics.

When people say a game has a low skill gap, they are reffering to the noticeable similarity of performance between everyone. Everyone, regardless of experience, performs rhoughly the same and gets the same result.

  • 11.26.2011 5:13 PM PDT

http://i.imgur.com/k3PiA.jpg

Skill gap is 1/beta.

[Edited on 11.26.2011 5:33 PM PST]

  • 11.26.2011 5:33 PM PDT
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Nope. SouthPole isn't a person. He's the avatar of the force of tryhards everywhere. He stalks the web looking for retards to set straight. He can not be stopped by mere bans or thread locks for he shall rise anew.

It's the gap between good and bad players.
The larger the gap, the chance of the better player beating the bad player increases.

  • 11.26.2011 5:35 PM PDT

I think you'll also find that the size of the skill gap is proportional to the learning curve.

  • 11.26.2011 5:47 PM PDT