Thanks all for the responses! Atm I'm playing mobile and so it's a bit fiddly to create games to certain templates, but I am happy for you to invite me to them. If you can't be bothered doing this (understandably), I'll just wait till I've bought a laptop (sometime in the next month or two) and then be prepared for the invites to stream in...
The number after the dash is the players peak 1v1 ladder rating if applicable.
The level 65 is the best player to have responded, but that's a coincidence, not an expectation that the highest level player in a group is the best. There are 6 people that responded that are higher level than me, mod (the level 65) is the only one I wouldn't expect to beat at least 8-9 times out of 10 aside from maybe koala who might potentially win 3-4.
Things like ladder stats, or tournament wins, etc. are far more meaningful than level or even winrate.
Ladder ratings use elo, which means a rating of 1500 is average for people on the ladder. Below 1500 is under average.
Someone who is level 60+ with a 1200 ladder rating is still a punching bag, just a punching bag that's played a lot.
That's a 11-9 record this month vs average opponent rating of 1202. That puts you at an estimated rating of 1237 over your past 20 games. Games expire. Your earliest games aren't impacting your rating at all.
I disagree with MoD and agree with Koala. Best way is to play against people some what better than you. Having someone way above you crush you every game is not that informative. Against somewhat better opponents you'll get into more uncertain games and have both yourself and your opponent make harder decisions. Once you've raised your level find stronger opponents. Ladder does this automatically, which if you take it seriously and try to keep climbing makes it a good tool for getting better.
Most important thing is whenever you lose learn why you lost and why your opponent won.
Wasteland picking, can be useful. That said, if you're not at 2000+ level on the ladder, don't do it, it's safe to say anyone below that doing so shouldn't be.
@Glass Sorry friend but I dont know in my opinioni MoD haves total reason.
In every game of part of life, if u want to be a top you haves to play against the tops or just play difficults matches. Easy matches mmmm its bad for my mind :d
if you just play against bad players (like level 20 and under) and win most of them, that gives u a high win rate. ut that doesn't mean that person is a good player. Winning against bad players does not make you a good player. It doesn't get you better
so if you want to get better, you need to play against top players.
