Understanding AW tiers for noobs

Guys please help me understand something about this game in respect of aw…

Tier 1 - you find your top 20 master alliances.

Tier 2 - platinum 1 alliances top 50.

Tier 3 - platinum 2 alliances top 100.

Tier 4 - platinum 3 alliances top 300.

Tier 5 - platinum 4 alliances top 800.

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pseudosane

everything is in terms of points.
you can be tier1 and still fall into plat1. Everything depends on results you get.

Pikolu

Tiers are based on war rating which you get via wins and losses. Your tier has a multiplier attached to it. I used to do tier 2 war with an alliance that did 2 bgs so we could only get plat 3 because we were missing out on a whole Battlegroup worth of points.

DNA3000

Guys please help me understand something about this game in respect of aw…

Tier 1 - you find your top 20 master alliances.

Tier 2 - platinum 1 alliances top 50.

Tier 3 - platinum 2 alliances top 100.

Tier 4 - platinum 3 alliances top 300.

Tier 5 - platinum 4 alliances top 800.

First, there are tiers and there are brackets and they are different (I know the terms and language sometimes overlap which can confuse things).

Every alliance has a war rating. This rating is determined by the alliance's wins and losses. Every time they win, they gain rating and every time they lose they lose rating. How many points of rating you win or lose depends on the rating of the opponent. If an alliance with high rating faces an alliance with equal rating, they will win or lose an equal amount of rating points for wins and losses. If A beats B, A might gain 60 rating points and B might lose 60 points of rating. But if the alliances have different rating, then the higher one will gain less and lose more, while the lower one will gain more and lose less. This represents the fact that alliances with higher rating are presumed to be stronger (they've won more often) and thus winning against a lower rated alliance is easy, but winning against a higher rated alliance is hard (there's some math involved here we're going to skip over).

At the end of the day, your war rating determines your alliance's war tier. Your tier is based on your relative ranking by war rating. If we sort all the alliances by war rating, the top X are in tier 1, the next group are in tier 2, and so on.

Every season all the alliances that participate in war are sorted by the amount of points they earned during the twelve wars of that season. The top alliances are in the Masters bracket. Then the alliances below them are in the Platinum brackets (1-4). Below that are the Gold alliances, the Silver alliances, and so on. Your bracket is determined by just one thing: the points you scored in that season. That's it. Regardless of your war rating, regardless of your war tier, you could end up in any bracket. A tier 1 alliance can fight one war and then stop and end up in Silver.

The one way in which your war rating affects which season bracket you end up in is that every war tier has an associated points multiplier. The higher your tier, the higher your multiplier. This is designed to reflect the fact that higher rated alliances have won more and are facing stronger opponents, so they deserve more points per war and per win. This prevents a tier 20 alliance from winning twelve wars and placing first overall.

Summary:
War tier ===> based on war rating, which is based on wins and losses. Tier 1, tier 2, tier 3, etc.
War season bracket ===> based on points scored in that season. Master, Platinum, Gold, etc.