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[China] The Arena Could Always Use More Heroes: Blizzard China to publish 12-win arena leaderboard, updated weekly

Last night (China time), Blizzard China announced plans to publish a 12-win arena leaderboard, which will be updated weekly with rewards given to top 50 players monthly, starting this month.

I’ve translated the details of the article “The Arena Could Always Use More Heroes: Will You Answer the Call?” and activity below.

Are you an arena maestro, getting 12 wins as easily as clearing dailies, but feel that no one is recognising your achievements? This will all be changing, outstanding skill deserves to be noticed and rewarded!

Rules:

  • Rewards given out based on final monthly ranks.

  • Only 12-win runs completed within a month will be counted. If your 12-win run was done over 2 months, they will be counted in the month it was completed.

  • In the event of ties, the player who completed the runs first will be placed ahead.

  • The top 100 leaderboard will be published and updated every Tuesday and Friday.

  • On the first week of each month, we will announce the final ranks for the previous month and rewards will be given to the top 50 players.

  • If any foul play is detected, the accounts involved will be disqualified.

  • Each account can only receive one reward each month.

Rewards:

  • 1st to 10th place: 330 Battlenet Points [60 packs cost 388 points]

  • 11th to 50th place: 100 Battlenet Points

  • Iksar
    Posted 9 years, 7 months ago (Source)

    In case you haven't seen it, I'd like to make sure you are linked this spreadsheet to give some context to how arena leaderboards have been managed by the twitch arena community thus far. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1p3RnaT47QhyWzX_tI0OwNFbcmbxFGrnxuSIhnYiQZ6E/edit#gid=1595896034

    A bit of summary: The most prominent measure is the "rolling 100", giving an up to date measure of stats while discouraging sitting on a high average. Each "season" is by meta: so every card release would constitute a new season in the arena. (for example, you can see the League of Explorer's results in the archives tab). Long seasons allow the sample size issues to diminish. The sample size requirements increase gradually from the start of a season.

    At the end of each card release, you get to see which players did best with each class, as well as the best performance overall. There is also a class parity statistic which carries a lot of weight and helps address the class picking bias (rogue//mage).

    I'm sending this just to try and add context to what the twitch arena community has been using so far, there are notes underneath the tables on the front page.

    Having a rolling X number of runs just amount 'active' players sounds reasonable. Where active means at least some small amount of runs in the last 7 days. Thanks for bringing this up again, I'll take a closer look!

  • Iksar
    Posted 9 years, 7 months ago (Source)

    How about highest win percentage? That's a pretty straight forward one - captures 12 win runs (particularly 12-0s etc). Only catch with anything is that there needs to be sufficient runs required to rule out variance. But requiring people to complete say 30 arenas per month (which is still not really high enough to get rid of the noise of RNG) is already going to rule out a large percentage of the player base.

    In order to make it a monthly leaderboard, maybe it needs to be highest win percentage over the last three months, minimum of 50 runs required? So June winners would be those with highest % over Apr-June, July winners would be May-July and so on.

    Win percentage is a pretty good indicator of skill-level, but the part that bothers me about it is that it sort of motivates you to stop playing. Say you get 10-15 great arena runs and now you don't want to play anymore for the month because you are afraid of your (non-sustainable) average wins to drop-off. It's an interesting topic, and something we're still looking for feedback on.

  • Iksar
    Posted 9 years, 7 months ago (Source)

    Things like this are interesting to me. Celebrating high level arena players on the web sounds great. I would love to hear more feedback on how best to rank players and the cadence at which to do so. Each region has a little power to do what makes the most sense for them, so maybe this format would be great for NA/EU/KR or maybe there is something you guys would rather see instead.

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