A visual example of why the online rating system is broken!!

[N3rd4Christ]

Easier said than done my friend

The rating system gives me the motivation to build the best deck. Its tough to see the rating and ignore it. Its part of what makes the game fun

So ive already done it and can say it =)

[Texston]

Dude, in ANY match, someone is going against someone with a lower ranking.

Im not complaining that I'm being matched up against players with a lower rating than mine. I know thats highly likely.

The "complaint" was that even though i won 3 games in a row, my rating stayed exactly the same. And then when I had to quit a game early because I got a call on the phone I was playing the game on, I lost 4 points. So I went 3-0 and gained 0, lost 1 and lost 4

[CHLBRK]

i think we should make the difference between 2 players 50 or 30. but not 150

[Codepunk]

I agree that 150 up or down is probably too large a gap, now that the rating spread is only up to 350 or so. One way to do it would be to increase the rating gap search every 5 seconds or so...if a player within 30 rating isn't found in 5 secs, increase the search to within 50 rating, and so on, until a match is made.

[shannong]

To the OP: read the link in my sig block.

[N3rd4Christ]

i think we should make the difference between 2 players 50 or 30. but not 150

50-100 would work. but less than 50 would be ideal

[WillieDee]

ok so on test server i was ranked 217 and lost to a 214 ranked player (sup stunnah). I became ranked 213 and he became 216. So he gained 2 ranks and I lost 4. How should I be dropped below the rank of the person I lost to?
Its a rhetorical question, but honestly, why have rank if it can change so quickly. The randomness of ranking and the clear benefit of being first are two things that really frustrate me.

[BearFace]

I think shannong's link explains that this isn't a ranking system as much as it is a rating system.