Re: EvE Matchmaking Explanation
What I find fascinating is how the system determines where your empire places at the end of a season. Ill use my empire and last season as a example: We are a very casual empire that war 4 times a day. The 4:00 am war is the "throw away" war. This keeps us out of Legend league as much as possible. That said, the last two days we went on a winning spree and placed #182 Legend 2014 Fall season. This blows my mind since when we do fall backwards into Legend those wars are normally a massacre. Like I said we are very casual and have a good little team of like minded individuals where work and school is top priority but some of the empires we placed ahead of last season makes absolutely no sense at all. If we are basically Platinum/Diamond for the whole majority of a entire season there should be no way we had the opportunity to "place" in Legend...even if we won all the games 2 days prior to the season ending.
I'm really not complaining here since it was a huge boost to our egos placing anywhere amongst the Legend empires but I like to understand in more depth as to how match making and season placement works. From what I can tell the last days of a season is really what determines your placement at the end of a season. Forget about your record or what empires you beat...which really doesn't set right with me but since this last season was in my favor I guess it will have to do. I'd like to think someday they make it to where there are certain empires you will never face due to level average, amount of members and overall record.
What I find fascinating is how the system determines where your empire places at the end of a season. Ill use my empire and last season as a example: We are a very casual empire that war 4 times a day. The 4:00 am war is the "throw away" war. This keeps us out of Legend league as much as possible. That said, the last two days we went on a winning spree and placed #182 Legend 2014 Fall season. This blows my mind since when we do fall backwards into Legend those wars are normally a massacre. Like I said we are very casual and have a good little team of like minded individuals where work and school is top priority but some of the empires we placed ahead of last season makes absolutely no sense at all. If we are basically Platinum/Diamond for the whole majority of a entire season there should be no way we had the opportunity to "place" in Legend...even if we won all the games 2 days prior to the season ending.
I'm really not complaining here since it was a huge boost to our egos placing anywhere amongst the Legend empires but I like to understand in more depth as to how match making and season placement works. From what I can tell the last days of a season is really what determines your placement at the end of a season. Forget about your record or what empires you beat...which really doesn't set right with me but since this last season was in my favor I guess it will have to do. I'd like to think someday they make it to where there are certain empires you will never face due to level average, amount of members and overall record.
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