War rating creep and tier 1?

Last season, we joined tier 1 with a rating of 3652. We’ve eventually fell out before this season.

We’ve had a phenomenal season this season. 3653 wasn’t enough to get us into tier 1. Fine, maybe the cutoff moved a bit.

We won another war and got 28 more points. Now we are 3681. Still not tier 1. How sharply is this cutoff climbing that in less than 2 seasons it has gone up at least 20 points?

We’ve been matched multiple times against t1 alliances. We’ve even won some of these matchups. We suffer in the standings because we have to fight on a tougher map against tougher defenders without the benefit of the t1 multiplier. Even having that multiplier for one war would be enough to ensure a platinum 2 finish. Can anyone provide insight here?

Comments

SirGamesBond

T1 cutoff increases 30-40 per season.

DNA3000

Because every war tier contains some fixed percentage of the participating alliances (for T1 it is the top 0.15%) there's no actual cutoff to qualify, more or less there's a fixed number of T1 alliances (probably about 50 or so) that only changes if the number of alliances that participate in alliance war changes (which it doesn't too much from season to season). So to get into T1, you basically have to knock someone else out.

Ratings inflation happens because those alliances tend to win more often than lose when facing alliances in T2, so they all tend to have greater than 50/50 win/loss records. I'm not surprised the cutoff drifts upward by 30-40 points per season. Its drifting upward by a little less than one net win per season, which, while an oversimplification, is reasonable for alliances who almost certainly are averaging more than 50/50 collectively.