A Definitive Analysis of the Trueskill System (How Your Skill Level Works)

"That's not true for me. When I perform well, consistently, I level up. Plain and simple."

Generally speaking (but not always), when you perform well, you will place well, causing your mu to increase. Since you say "when" you perform well, I would take that to mean that you, like anyone else, have your off days, meaning that your overall consistency is not perfect. Since you have somewhat of a decent sigma value, that will allow your visible rank to increase more easily the more consistently you begin to play. I don't see how this example refutes anything I've said so far.
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"Except for the fact that my "visible rank" doesn't increase so easily. =/"

You just said that when you perform well consistently, your rank goes up. I take that to mean easily. Either way, you still have yet to give me a circumstance where it does not work. By that I mean something like "I have won 100 lone wolves games in a row against level 10s and I'm a level 10 and I haven't ranked up".
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It still is a sticky?
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"Repth im sorry these a-holes dont appreciate your helpful topic

Everyone is angry because they arent good enough to get past the rank they truly deserve and call the ranking system bull****

You are 100% correct. and i appreciate this topic"

Thanks, but I don't really mind people voicing their opinion against it. If they think it's wrong, or want confirmation before they believe it, that's fine, I wouldn't exactly call them a-holes. The reason I stick around to answer questions and deal with nay-sayers is so that people will believe it.

Though I do think you are right about people not understanding that not everyone deserves or will get to level 50; your rank is the actual representation (as close as a game engine can come to it) of your skill, and I'm pretty sure not everyone is going to be "the best" (read: level 50). It's a tool to make your gameplay more interesting and fun, not necessarily something that you can rush to the top in a few nights to get and then it tote around like a badge of honor. It is meant for people to work at and try and improve, but some people just don't understand that they will top out.
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"I went into MM with some low level friends and each win I went up two levels while my friends went up only 1. I was a higher level facing lower levels, therefore I should have gained 1/5 of an even skill win according to the 2nd post. I had far more games and they had less, shouldn't their MU let them level better since I was pulling in high levels and they were winning against them? Out of the matches for that day, I went up about 15 levels while the best out of my friends went up about half, at 8."

This is somewhat of a tough one because of the circumstantiality of it. It all depends on what your sigma and their sigma happened to be. If you had a high sigma and they had a low sigma then that would pretty much explain it right there. For instance, say you're a 30 and you've played 500 games in that hopper (extreme example but I'm making a point) and played very streakily at that; some games were 1st place against levels higher than you and some were last place against lower levels than you, etc. Now imagine your friends are 10s, but have won every game they have played in the hopper. That would cause you to have a very high sigma and them to have a very low sigma, allowing you to increase (or decrease!) ranks a lot faster than them. That's about the only explanation I can think of, hope it helps.
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