Quote Originally Posted by wongheungwing View Post
My rating is 239 and my in game name is Wongtinlong.
My current score is 500248 and should become the player with the highest score this season.

The original poster has ignored the fact that it takes much longer for high rating players to find opponents, thus limiting the total number of games they can play each day. From my personal experience, the best rating for getting scores should be between 230 and 250. Games played within this range usually end within 7 minutes and it normally takes less than 10 seconds to find opponents. So one lunch break allows me to play 7 to 8 games. Plus another 20 games during commute. It is extremely easy to play and win 30 games a day without even knowing it.

If you compare the chart of scores and that of ratings, you will see that players of high ratings are rarely players with high scores. While some high rating players may be campers who quit playing any games after reaching 3xx, the true reason is that it takes an extremely long time for high rating players to find opponents. I was once 366 rating in this season. And in the worst scenario, it took me over five minutes just to get a match. Since the system only matches 3xx players with other 3xx players, if all other 3xx players are busy or sleeping, then there will be no games!

It was so annoying that I needed to deliberately lose a few matches to lower the rating in order to shorten the time it took to get opponents.

I do understand that the scores I can get from each victory will become lower if my rating is low. But I keep getting scores while others with higher ratings are still waiting.
If my assumptions are correct

To reach 150,000 in score... for a 250 rated player and a 300 rated player

the 250 rated player would need save 3.5 minutes per game in order to be as efficient as a 300 rated player

if you believe that you can save > 3.5 minutes via shorter wait times and shorter games ... then by all means purposely decrease your rating into the 250 rating zone


Personally, I wouldn't purposely decrease my rating since I enjoy the challenge of beating high rated players