[league] ranking

[griffin1987]

And still we created one with the currently best player being top ranked (even with 3 accounts). A miracle!

I still remember the BTNK vs BUG match we did not too long ago - and though bug definitely had the players which where regarded as being "better", the nearly lost. Only reason they didn't was because our BTNK team played together for the first time in their life, and as we had 4 infernals vs 1 infernal in the other team, and were standing at their base' door, no one dared to drop, and thus we lost (I'd have if i wasn't the one who did the ups and thus didn't have the money for an infernal).

Either way, there is no 'best player' in the first place in btanks, because there are just way too many factors to weigh in when thinking about how "good" a player is.

Teamplay, timing, speed & reflexes, tactics & strategy, communication skills, farsight, looking-at-the-map, .... and dozens of other things are important.

And there's also the hardware aspect like ping, monitor resolution, fps, ... which may also account for winning a game ( probably everyone has had the moment where they died or just didnt get a kill because of a ping spike, and sometimes those are even server-related and you can't do anything about it ).

Also it's possible to just join a game with 2 accounts to increase the chance to win. Or have friends help with winning.

The ranking doesn't say much about a players skill in fact, and as such, you need not care about it.

Just look at the top 100 playernames:

How for example could RaptorXI ever be behind stibi if the ranking really told you about skill? Can't imagine him ever loosing out in a 1on1 fight - and still, at the time of writing this, RaptorXI is ranked 78 while stibi is ranked 72.
Or High_Bob on 81 - that one should probably somewhere around 200 or so regarding player skill.

I don't care about how people are ranked, and I don't care much about my own ranking, but I care about totally imbalanced games, as those aren't much fun - and as we all know the ranking is based around points which directly come from ELO - penalty.

And gozo is totally right about the rest - it's just not possible with 3 leavers on average each game, dozens of people who try to give up before it's over, afk'ers and stuff like that.