Karl Berg, on 30 June 2014 - 05:57 PM, said:
Heh, obviously two different things being discussed there.
Regarding those grouping stats that you were inquiring about:
I've been asked about those stats several times in this thread even, and I don't know what time period they were pulled from or how exactly they were gathered. They are certainly out of date right now; and they are about to be completely obsoleted this Wednesday. Your best bet is to ask Paul or Bryan for updated numbers once we've gathered a few weeks of data on production with the new grouping systems.
And as to what Bryan was talking about:
We're still in the middle of ongoing investigations as to the measurable impacts of grouping on win outcomes in our game. We literally have millions and millions of data points to examine; so we can produce some highly statistically significant results. Because of this, I have some really neat results regarding the impact of premades on solo games and premades of other sizes. This is all in addition to all of the various predictive tests we've been running on different algorithms for Elo convergence using production data. It's fascinating stuff, we've had several extremely late nights examining, hypothesizing about, running experiments on, and generally discussing this data as a group, and we have some really cool results that I'm hoping we can share at some point soon. So that's likely why Bryan was a bit confused about the topic of discussion.
Note that these investigations are still ongoing. We will likely be making some fundamental changes to the way we track and measure skill ratings in the game; but those changes will be made only with high confidence, after all our investigations are completed.
Well, to be totally honest, I knew it was slightly different and I was hoping to just evolve the question to get the answer I wanted. I fail at doing that quite horribly, so it didn't work
I know you have been asked the question A LOT, but that is because we have never received an answer! If we get an answer, you won't have to field the question again
So............... is a 4-man group considered a single "drop", or is it 4 "drops"?