Question about ladder rating

[palombhp]

Hi,

my understanding of the 1vs1 rating was:
- you win a game, get some points added to the rank,
- you loose a game, some points get subtracted from your rank

Therefore you should win more than loose to climb up the ranking

I had now a look on the leaderboard and saw for example, that a player has a win/loss ratio of 29% but a rank over 2000.

How does this work? Does this not mean he is loosing 2 from 3 games and still has such a high rank?

Or is it just broken and competely wrong.

Last option, I am just too stupid. Always possible.

cheers
HP

[JaggedAppliance]

Win ratio is broken atm, it just keeps going down.

[nocaps]

as jagged said, win ratio is/was (i had thought it was fixed, perhaps i am wrong) broken.

that said, it would be possible to get a fairly high rank with a low correct win ratio, if for some reason you were consistently matched against players significantly better than you; you gain/lose more or less points depending on the comparative rank of your opponent. eg if you win vs someone 1k points above you you may gain a hundred or more points; if you win vs someone 1k points below you, you may not gain any points at all.

[keyser]

It's also possible to have good rating with fairly low % of win,if you win against really good people, and lose to opponent of your skill level. (And don't get match to lower rated people)

[palombhp]

ok, thanks for the answers