Setons Opti Ballancing
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I've noted in the last while (mb last year) that opti-mirror balance is consistently putting low rated players on the air slot when populating the positions. It seems intentional - given how frequently the lowest gets put on air.
Can this bias be shifted to front or beach?
Am I wrong? Just seems to common for it to be blind luck.
Will this change if I select "Odd vs Even" or "Top vs Bottom" etc? -
I believe this is because optibal orders by slot starting with highest rating descending and the last or penultimate slot to be filled is air
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Wouldn't it be better for the lowest rank players to battle it out on air and have a slower building air game while the higher ranked players held the front line arc created by the other three positions?
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The other day I was having connection issues and I had a nice group of setoners repeatedly let me test different potential fixes. We’d go into a game, play a few minutes, then leave. No rating change or anything. Same teams each time since no rating change. Iirc in 4 tries I was air once, rock once, beach twice. Seems fine. Certainly not something like the highest get a certain spot, otherwise Nory and I would have been in the same slots every time.
I’m about as confident as I can be without looking at the code that it’s random, just sometimes bad rng. I’ve had losing streaks where I got front or beach with a weak team 10 games in a row. Happens when you have thousands of games played I suppose.
Edit: the one actual game I’ve played in months was an opti balance, non-mirrored iirc, where I was the highest rated on my team and was on air and I was vs Yew as the highest rated enemy on air, just as rng.
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Thanks for the replies guys! Perhaps I was wrong..
Maybe the ones that are the most memorable are those with bad air... gg
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@dorset said in Setons Opti Ballancing:
Wouldn't it be better for the lowest rank players to battle it out on air and have a slower building air game while the higher ranked players held the front line arc created by the other three positions?
It seems like that, but in actual fact- recovering a broken front is MUCH easier than a broken air.