Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-30576757-20170221050616/@comment-77.231.119.56-20170222183521

Sabian2008 wrote: You have improved this weeks because there is tons of people registering times which last week weren't. But that doesn't have to do with the "fix" for borrowing but the fact that Formula E cars dissapeared. There's been more than a 100% increase in the number of people registering times in all four tracks this week compared to last week.

Moreover, people who don't have Formula E cars tend to be (not always) more casual players, so they probably even bias the median towards higher splits. What I mean is... last week you had 35k players in WTTT and most of them were regular players. This week you have >70k and you added 35k more people, on average, slower than previous 35k. That should result in you advancing 1 or 2 rankings.

If you care about the math, search it on the forum. I think Sirebel has posted a nice how'to no more than 1 month ago. Of course, with more players each group is larger. But their beauty is that they are defined by percentiles of 10% (except the top groups, which have lower percentiles), not fixed numbers. In this case, for your hypothesis to be true, you would really have to confirm that those 35k new players are quite a lot slower, on average, than the original 35k. Sensibly slower if they are to reduce the time to go from one group to the next so significantly. I agree that they are slower, feeling in spots in the ranking on the lower groups. I suspect that a lot of this has to do with people stopping borrowing and having to settle for lower groups, not because they are simply less skillful than me, as you seem to suggest.

Let's not forget that three of the WTTT are still old times, with borrowed upgrades, the effect should become more clear in upcoming weeks.