A buddy of mine tried appealing 3 times. Once when ratings came out, once after someone showed him @schmke 's Dec. 24th blog post about denied appeals now being granted, and finally on a whim today after I told him about the 3 people on your team. I guess third time's the charm because he was denied twice and granted the third time.
I believe that it does but I don't recall the exact numbers.
Yes, it does, but they may tweak the exact thresholds periodically. At one point it was 0.1 above if 3 matches played going down to 0.05 if 10 matches played with no appeals allowed if more than 10 matches played. I believe it has changed since then.
Just today a 4.5M rated guy around here successfully got bumped down to 4.0. He’s no where near 4.5 even around here.
Like others, I believe a sliding scale based on the number of matches played is still in effect. While going to postseason or playing 10 matches used to preclude players from successfully appealing, that’s no longer the case. I have heard that no matter how many matches they play/how far they go, players now have an appeal range of at least .02. As to why that is, I’m unsure. Perhaps to give us the feeling that we have some impact on our rating? Inertia because they weren’t as confident in their algorithm in the past and don’t want to take away the button now?
