[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] SickRealskillz Ok i have a quick couple of questions, i'm not sure who did the write up but i'm replying to elkafungus whoever wants to answer is fine he just seems to be answering alot of questions and i read pretty much all the posts, first off how old are you cause your really good at match hahaha, 2nd i understand this system almost completely but in lonewolves you say win or loss ratio most important, what exactly is a win in lonewolves?? is this similar to halo 2 as in everybody above you is a loss and below is a win?? say if you place 3rd you lost to the top 2 guys?? and depending on their rank will determine your rank up or down. kind of a simple question. Secondly and sorry about poor format but i'm tired, but you keep saying or someone does about if you have a bunch of win streaks which i do i had in the last 2 days i think or 10 sprees that were 5 wins or higher in a row in double team, anyway back to subject you said if you have alot of those streaks your sigma possibly goes up, but i would think that your sigma the more games you play should be going down and your skill going up because your winning those games?? because once I get to 50 and i will (havent met a 50 actually better than me yet) i would want my sigma to be low so i could stay there but everybody is gonna be lower than at 50 unless your playing only 50's. I mean the more you play the lower the sigma i would think because the system should know what your rank is even if you win almost every game shouldnt the sigma be low once your up that high??? When I first started I won alot of games obviously because everybody was low ranks and I was better, but I play ALOT of games by myself random teammates so I lose sometimes because either my teammate is bad or he causing me to play bad because of stupid strategy or no strategy which results in a loss usually not my fault whether i'm -5 or not especially if i have umpteen assists because of stolen kills. But i can see what your saying but win loss ratio my brother who is a 50 in 2 different categories has only play 350 or ranked matches in any category and i've played close to 1300. My brother will only play with good team-mates where as I get bored and i'm on more play with randoms and lose sometimes because of it when me and him play we win alot, alot of times when we lose its because of hiim sometimes when we lose because of me but rarely, but not get me wrong my brother is VERY good but i'm confident i could beat him 1 on 1 65 percent of the time. Yet im' only a 48 in double team and 47 in slayer. Which i can see slayer because its not just me and him. But in double team i should be ranked higher i think but i have lost alot of games due to bad teammates. Another think to is my brother is a very inconsistent player in general will go plus 15 one game and -5 the next. I hover around +5 almost every game and a bad one -5 or so. And i've had good games as many as plus 20 against above 40 ranks. Oh and another question is there anyway to tell win/losses in a specific category so maybe i could judge when i might rank up and you said or somebody did that 65 % win ratio should level you up is that pertaiing to all stats or just last 50 games??? because it seemed to finally get to 48 from 47 in doubles i had to get my ratio overall close to that at least for me. sorry this is so winded but if you have some answers for those that would be appreciated overall i think this ranking is way better than halo 2's and for all you who are lower or not any higher than you halo 2 level maybe its because you doubleshotted and glitched like nuts and now you cant and your losing??? becuase i got glitched alot in halo 2 and i refused to glitch and now i'm ranked waaaaay higher in halo 3 also because i dont get cheated i was only around 43 44 in halo 2 and that took forever to get mostly because i got cheated 40 percent of the time let me know what you think i can help with statistics if you need info because i've played alot of games [/quote] That's a QUICK couple of questions?!? Thanks for the explanation on the number system...it finally helps me understand why sometimes you'll gain/lose 2 or more levels sometimes.