There's more than 70 people ranked right now. Maybe soon we'll have more than 100 . . . that would be fascinating, reaching the triple digits

looks like we changed Quality for quantity. it's great that so many People are playing it atm. the skill Level is lower than it used to be tough

Well, if more of the best players join, then there will be quantity and quality. :)

How does the rating system work?
My TrueSkill Mean: 2271.21 is higher than the #1 and #2, but my rating is lower then the #1 and #2. What is the difference between the TrueSkill and the rating?

Mean - 3 * Standard Deviation

Thanks Beren.
So how can i get my Standard Deviation lower?

TrueSkill is a Gaussian distribution; the Mean represents your approximate level of skill and the standard deviation represents how "accurate" that value is

Basically just play more games and it'll go down.

yeah, more quantity but less quality for the last couple months.

personally i lost some motivation to play actively after a couple lame losses. waiting to have more free time to play more focused to engage it again.

let's try to bring back some quality.

lets see if we can have all top 10 above 2k ratings by the end of this week

You guys should let us newbs take a win or two, it's hard to get that rating up !

But if the elite lose to noobs.... and the noobs beat elite...... Well.... We dont want warlight to become socialist and everyone have a genaroc 1450 rating or something?

shhh, I was hoping to sneak up the ladder with pei's strategy by myself :P

does the quality of the players matter a huge amount? the better ones rise to the top, though I have heard you can lose points even if you win against someone much lower ranked?

(would setting a minimum gain/loss of points per win/lose help fix this, in case people gain rating from losing?)

yep
i just lost 1 point even when i won cause my oppponent was Darklordio

good thing it was not me then or it might have been 2 points instead :P

Well, it sucks because you often end up playing against people with a greater rating than yours, and despite losing only 1-2 rating, it really makes it hard to get your rating up due to the low winning % (but your rating still goes up, just very very slowly..). If you're in an upper tier than the one you belong, you'll eventually lose that rating, so it really wouldn't become a socialist thing.

Edited 3/26/2015 16:02:36

Then play better

Go join now, i'll play once a couple of days for the next week-2 weeks. If some new strong players want to play, i'll be happy to find new opposition.