I appreciate that ā I wasnāt worried that you might take unwarranted offense, though, Iām worried that my response will be objectively inflammatory.
There are few things that make me as bitter and emotional as having to make extensive effort to ādebunkā arguments that I perceive as being illogical, and thatās likely to cloud my judgement and make me veer into rhetorical fallacies and a smug tone without realizing in the moment.
I might try to write a response over time, hoping that re-reading what I wrote after some time will help me keep things civil.
In the meantime, you have brought up the idea that the volatility of the ranking may reflect actual fluctuations in the playerās ability, and thus momentarily make the matchmaking more accurate.
This is an idea that other people, including myself, have proposed in the recent past, but since itās just a hypothesis, weāve been discussing the possibility of testing it to see if the evidence backs it up.
(And after thinking about it quite a bit, I believe it to be wrong)
While I have many ideas in merit, the main thing I lack is the general programming ability and the specific understanding of OGSās code that would be needed to put it into practice, and the ability to autonomously gain those abilities; so unless I receive help, itās unlikely to ever happen.
So if you think this would be worthwhile, I invite you to read this thread and consider helping us (me?) out:
By the way, when you brought up my rank you said
So while you then used the atypical smoothness of my rank to develop your further arguments, you did have a good reason to talk about my rank in particular, conjecturing an explanation for me apparently idealizing the ranking system. It makes perfect sense.
I mean, you were wrong in this case, as my understanding (whether right or wrong) of the ranking system comes from having thought about it a lot and having looked at a lot of other evidence, but your inductive reasoning made a lot of sense nonetheless.