Riot Phroxzon on 14.8 Ranked Seeding Changes

Riot Phroxzon tweeted:

This patch, we pushed a change to Ranked seeding to better seed new to Ranked players!!

This has a few pros and cons:

Pros

1 This patch, we've pushed some changes to seed all players more correctly into Ranked, regardless of incoming queue (average that we think is correct is ~Silver 4 and this can go up/down depending on your prior performance, especially if you play normals).

Previously, new to ranked players who only played ARAM and Bots weren't seeded correctly, but these should be addressed better with the new changes.

There's still more to be done, but this is the first step.

2 Players who previously had the mis-seeding bug from before February where we were seeding them at Gold 1 are now playing in games that are more appropriate for their actual skill level

Cons

Because we can't change visual ranks easily, all new to Ranked players will be playing in games more appropriate for their skill level.

As a result of that however, new to ranked players caught in the transition period will have negative LP gains.

In the case of the players in segment 2 above, these can be pretty bad cases of negative LP gains (+15/-35 in some cases)

Overall

Overall, we thought these tradeoffs were worth it though; we felt it would be better to have new players play in the right games, rather than their LP gains look correct and get smashed in most games.