Confused about Arena Divisions

Hey there! Just for the record, my gamertag is Nano Genie; I forgot my windows live ID/pass for that gamertag soooo yeah, I had to make another.

On to the thread:

Recently I decided to start playing Arena. Now, I’m an average player. I only have a 1.2 KD because I played horribly the first months of Halo Reach. I last played March 2nd 2012, and decided to start playing again in August. From 8/8/12 to now (8/15/12), I’ve:

  • Had an average +5.78 spread per Arena game. Never quit an Arena game.
    Have a 1.66+ K/D and 1.93+ KA/D in the past 7 days (started playing Arena again on 8/10/12, so technically 5).
    1 Perfection in Arena.

Yesterday I had a 1586 daily rating and today a 1630. The two days before were both 1560-1660, I forget exactly what, while the first day was only 1470 something. I’ve only played 5 days and 32 games.

I always play alone - don’t have a team to play Arena with lol. Basically, I ended up with Iron Division today. Now, I looked at other players who had bronze, and their stats were nowhere near mine. They were all lower (not trying to brag here, just confused), almost always below a 1.0 K/D for their past 7 days. I also noted a silver with lower stats, so now I’m extremely confused as to why I was placed in the Iron Division.

If anyone can explain how divisions are processed once a player has been rated 5 days that’d be great. I was honestly thinking I’d at least get into silver lol.

tl;dr version:

1470-1660 ratings past 5 days, +5.78 average spread per game, 1.66+ K/D and 1.93+ KA/D in Arena Season 12. Always play alone, 50% w/l, played 5 days and was placed in Iron Division. Extremely confused - if you could explain division placement mechanics, that’d be great.


I don’t mean to complain if it looks like I’m complaining; I’m not saying I should be in top 5% onyx or some ridiculous crap, I’m simply curious as to why I was placed in Iron. I mean it’s not like I suck :?

What I’m thinking could possibly help:

Play more games.
Win more games (get a team?).

… that is all for now. Obviously playing better will help, but I think I’ve been playing better than an Iron.

Just keep on winning! The Arena system is set up to where even if you play the best five games of your life all in a row, you won’t be in the highest division. You just have to keep playing to get there!

Thanks a lot man :smiley:

I suspected my low game-count and W/L had a lot to do with it. I’ll make sure to keep on playing!

> Thanks a lot man :smiley:
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> I suspected my low game-count and W/L had a lot to do with it. I’ll make sure to keep on playing!

Not a problem! :smiley:

If you have any more questions, feel free to ask!

I also don’t know how it works. Awhile back I saw someone post that the Arena only considers winning when ranking players. This person also stated that the Arena used to rank players based on the rating system. That is the top 4 players in game would rank up regardless of win/loss. I do know for a fact that the Arena considers all games played, not just your top 4 games per day (daily rating).

I have played 43 games, have a 1.05 K/D and a 1.26 W/L (56%). I am currently ranked as a 65% Silver.

Wy dont you just phone xbox support and get your old tag back?

> Thanks a lot man :smiley:
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> I suspected my low game-count and W/L had a lot to do with it. I’ll make sure to keep on playing!

how good you do has absolutely nothing to do with it.

its based only on win/loss and how good the people you win against are.