After the Hera announcement, I got curious about the state of the ranked ladder, so I ran some numbers and made some graphs.
I used both aoe-elo and robo-atp algorithms to determine who the top 10/20 were for each month, then I counted the number of 1v1 matches between two players in the list.
So for both cases, Winter and Spring of 2021 really was a golden time, and it has been in a decline since then. The release of AoE IV knocked it down again.
So nothing surprising at all given the existing narrative. I just wanted to see how real it was, and it is pretty bad.
I used both aoe-elo and robo-atp algorithms to determine who the top 10/20 were for each month, then I counted the number of 1v1 matches between two players in the list.
So for both cases, Winter and Spring of 2021 really was a golden time, and it has been in a decline since then. The release of AoE IV knocked it down again.
So nothing surprising at all given the existing narrative. I just wanted to see how real it was, and it is pretty bad.