Originally Posted by
Brenn
Do you have any sort of evidence, or data, or anything, to back up your claim that the "results [are] surprising?"
How is finding loot not luck? From everything I've experienced, and everything I've read on these forums, different people have wildly different success rates of finding loot, even at the same trophy level. How is that not luck? Because it is. Matchmaking is random. Success in matchmaking is due entirely on getting lucky.
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All that a nexting penalty would do is make the leaderboards even more dependent on luck. If matchmaking refuses to give you a good base early on, this would make even a good raid bad, lowering your average. This leaderboard would just become a casino,where you bet your ranking on random matchmaking, and force people to accept bad raids (lowering average) lest the matchmaking force them to spend more gold nexting (lowering their average). You see yet why this sort of leaderboard would unavoidably fall apart?
The only thing that counting troop costs would do is ruin the chances of higher TH levels to get on the leaderboard, who, due to the loot penalty, need to attack people on their own TH level (and use more expensive troops) to get loot. And if matchmaking forces them to spend high-cost troops for a lowered reward? Exactly.
And of course there are the inherent flaws of having a leaderboard based on averages.
