El Bandito, on 25 July 2015 - 05:12 PM, said:
PGI's data is known to have flaws and holes, and have zero context.
For instance, you don't know whether or not they have had premium time. However, since the event provides premium time (up to 6 days, and 6 chances of getting it), then it's fair to say there was premium time involved in most cases.
If more kills are assists are happening (usually more money is generated that way, less in roflstomps), then that would account for it.
However, more kills and assists are indicative of a higher TTK happening... aka less focus firing. In a roflstomp, usually a lot of focus firing goes on, and less ability to counter that. In essence, if you've ever see a great game, it's became there is enough incompetence on the opfor AND on your team in such that you had great match... well, it happens.
So, it would be arguably that in being "more successful" or specifically "more efficient", less rewards are given to the
losing team.
I hope that clears the data up.
Let's put this in a greater context though...
Say if the Paulconomist has on average 100x more C-bills than the average player, you would have to guess out of your arse where the he is and how much he has.
If we said the Paulconomist has on average 10x more C-bills than the average C-billionaire, you can kinda hazard an actual guess as to how much money he has. Since he has a dev account, adding money at a whim can be done. Still, you can figure out numbers based on that.
Anyways, it says that the NA servers tends to have more skilled, but poorly rewarded players, whereas Euro has lesser skilled, but better rewarded players (closer resulting matches).
I could probably throw some anecdote about playing with SJ Russian players when I was still with SJ (they were bad, despite winning), but I made out like a bandit.
If PGI forced EmP to play on the Euro servers (just for the sake of argument), you'd get the same results there than they would here... but the rewards would more closely reflect what they are here than it is there.
It's another way of looking at the stats.
Wintersdark, on 25 July 2015 - 06:16 PM, said:
Yeah. What times where you playing?
When you play at Prime Time, Elo works better. That is entirely a factor of player population counts, you can get the same effect playing NA servers at like 3am PST - totally random matches.
EU populations are simply going to be smaller, so the effect will be more pronounced.
I did say that the times (in the post you were quoting) as my experience through the various tournies (that I even remotely cared about) had convinced me that Euro primetime is great for getting scores that worked for me. It was significantly tougher during NA primetime. Of course, those were solo tournies back then...
Edited by Deathlike, 25 July 2015 - 08:35 PM.
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