In no competition, does one’s rank reset every season.

yes, rankings do get reset and they should be reset every new season.

Danxor

A lot of games do this, Hearthstone would be the one that mirrors this most closely.

Kerneas

Fair opinion, perfectly valid, but why do you think so? Back it up please

GroundedWisdom

Diablo 3 as well. You rebuild every Season.

Bazzingaaa

Football leagues have everyone in different leagues at the start of a new season, like AW does.
A football cup competition is a free for all, everyone can be drawn against anyone. Battlegrounds is like this.

Vergeman78

Do these games throw everybody in the same bracket at the start of those seasons, competing for the same rewards yet facing only accounts of their own size?

Because rosters change, players leave the game, they don't deserve to take a spot up just cause they finished there last season, season metas or matchmaking gives unfair advantages like this last season ws had, jusf terrible!.

Also, how would you move up if we kept our rank season after season and everyone's rosters changed?

NearJr

In the NBA, when the season starts, everyone has the exact same chance to get into the playoffs. The reigning champs do not get a free playoff spot. You earn what you get.

Exactly. Imagine, whoever wins championship gets it given to them every new season cause that was their last season rank

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Do high school teams get put in the NBA at the start of each season?

I am not much familiar with NBA, but I am sure there are bad teams and good teams, teams with different budgets, different levels of progression, different goals, past achievements.
That's the example being used here. You have to be in the league to play, you can't bring in a hockey team and soccer and have them compete.
Understand the analogy.

Colinwhitworth69

In Pro football (and really in every sport I can think of including college sprts), every season begins with everyone at the same "rank", with the same record of zero wins and zero losses.

Here's the thing, you cannot compare 2 different levels that are competing for different prizes.
Does a cavalier have different prizes than a paragon in BG? No.

So when the progression/rank resets at the START of every season, it is to give everyone the same footing. Competitions usually start with teams at zero points. F1?? EPL?? FIFA?? NBA?? BG??

Vergeman78

If we stick with the NBA analogy, each team can face anybody. No matter the roster, budget or whatever. You don’t get the top teams facing each other to make the playoffs while the weaker ones do the same

pseudosane

the sports metaphors out in full force.

You're talking about the ~30 best teams in the world. A 'bad' NBA team is better than 99.99999999999% of all basketball teams. It's an awful analogy.

You're not thinking about matchmaking. It the matchmaking wasn't garbage then I'd have no issue with everyone starting at zero because the actual best players would quickly rise to the top.

SkyLord7000

There could be a reduction each season. But maybe give the players that got further in the previous season a head start into the next season?

And they do, that is what the victory track is for.
If you are stuck in bronze, then that is probably where you belong.

Matchmaking isn't perfect but it does not stop the good players from progressing.

This is false equivalence. High School teams start off like all others, earning rank as they win

Kabam Miike

This is something we want to address. We're currently working on a solution for this, but I don't have any details on exactly what it would look like, or when you could expect it. It would help uneven matchmaking at the start of a season, and maintain some of your progress from season to season.

This is wrong too, you are assuming officials that make the schedules are going to do the same thing kabam is doing

In terms of high school examples, we do not have a 2A school match against a 6A school.

Wrong.

NearJr

High Schools dont compete for the Larry O'brien trophy

We are not playing a wrong or right game here.
Have you considered that maybe people aren't good enough, in terms of either skill or mental strength or other attributes to progress further.

Let's say you take my account and put me in Vibranium at the start of season or maybe Gamma 2, where I finished, where is the fun in that. What am I supposed to do rest of the season, count my thumbs.

There's a huge difference between starting everyone at 0 and Starting people exactly where they left off the previous season and allowing them to earn all the rewards w/o having to play.

**Range not difference.

No one is arguing that If you reach Gamma one season then you get free Gamma rewards for ever w/o having to play.

I know right, op is trying very hard to make a connection that isn't there

Explain this "huge" difference?