Originally Posted by Denogran
I think you're the one that's completely missed how the Arena ranking system works... A team that falls to 1300 is absolutely continuing to pump more points into the system - the system is _completely_ relative. Every team gains ranking by beating teams that are worse than them. If there aren't teams that are worse than you, you can't gain ranking. If everyone under 1800 suddenly quit, then who do the 2k teams beat to stay at 2k? By definition, pretty close to 1/2 the teams arenaing have to be under 1500 ranking.
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If everyone under 1800 suddenly quits, the 2k teams beat other 2k teams to stay at 2k. This is what win-trading is based upon, that if you lose and win equally against an equally rated team you both stay at the same point. If everyone 1800 is a hermetically sealed group, where the people at the bottom of the bracket lose most of the time, but win a few improbable battles and are rewarded heavily for those wins, than nothing changes. Now if a new team comes along and moves up into the 2000 bracket, those points need to come from somewhere. But if everyone under 1800 quits, then the average of active arena teams will be something like 2000, and it will *stay* at 2000 so long as nobody else enters or leaves the system.
Likewise, a team that falls to 1300 and then stays at 1300 ISN'T pumping points into the system, at least not while they hold steady at 1300.