[DuckSauce]

90 BP a week means 12.85 BP a day. If you won 2-3 games a day (depending on if you're favoured or not) then that's not hard to maintain. The stupid thing is once you're in, you can be vsing players from Bronze, and maintaining GM League (according to Blizzard...)

[Xeen]

Originally Posted by DuckSauce

90 BP a week means 12.85 BP a day. If you won 2-3 games a day (depending on if you're favoured or not) then that's not hard to maintain. The stupid thing is once you're in, you can be vsing players from Bronze, and maintaining GM League (according to Blizzard...)

2-3 wins, assuming you're evenly placed, is 4-6 games total. 15-20 minutes per game, that's 1-2 hours to stay even. A day.

nope

[Tom]

Originally Posted by DuckSauce

90 BP a week means 12.85 BP a day. If you won 2-3 games a day (depending on if you're favoured or not) then that's not hard to maintain. The stupid thing is once you're in, you can be vsing players from Bronze, and maintaining GM League (according to Blizzard...)

Yeah it might be 3 wins per day assuming you can play that consistently. But if you can only log on 1 or 2 days per week, suddenly it becomes 10-20 wins (20-30 1v1s, assuming a decent winrate) per day.

Unfortunately I can't play most weekdays due to work, and its not exactly my idea of fun to make that up by grinding ladder for hours on the weekend. Despite the fact that I played (literally) 5-10 times fewer 1v1 games than most players in top 200, I still managed to finish the last season in a respectable top 30 overall (and with 190 unused bonus points, so I would actually have been demoted!)

Long story short, the current rate of bonus pool accumulation does seriously disadvantage casual/time poor gamers, albeit who have MMRs that mean they consistently face (and win) against top 10 GMs on ladder.

[DuckSauce]

If you're only playing 1-2 games per week, you don't really deserve to be there then. It's a ladder which ranks users who are constantly playing, not inactive players. That still makes sense. Ladder is in a way an ongoing competition.

[Xeen]

Originally Posted by DuckSauce

If you're only playing 1-2 games per week, you don't really deserve to be there then. It's a ladder which ranks users who are constantly playing, not inactive players. That still makes sense. Ladder is in a way an ongoing competition.

And here we were thinking Grandmaster was about actually being good.

I guess we were wrong, it was all about who masses more games. You've really opened our eyes, thanks.

PS: Playing a few games a week at best is not 'inactive'. This is not supposed to be some MMO where you have to dedicate time every day.

[DuckSauce]

Originally Posted by Xeen

And here we were thinking Grandmaster was about actually being good.

I guess we were wrong, it was all about who masses more games. You've really opened our eyes, thanks.

PS: Playing a few games a week at best is not 'inactive'. This is not supposed to be some MMO where you have to dedicate time every day.

Partly true, but not entirely. The GM system is very flawed, but the way it's based is whoever is an actively good player, not a semi-active good player. It wouldn't make sense if there was two good players (1 of which played 10 games a day, 1 of which played 2 games a day) and they were both ranked evenly with different amounts of games being played.