BAD ARENA Season REWARD

[Silene]

Maybe arena ranks should be given to the highest-ever-achieved rating during the season. So people can keep playing in hope to get a higher score but without losing their rank. It wouldn't change anything concerning elo-change and arena-score-change in the game (what this thread was originally about), but it might fix the ranks?

[RicardoRix]

doesn't this just bring it back to who had the longest luckiest streak though?

And the person that plays the most will have more opportunities to get a lucky streak.

I think it's true for most games. The more you play the better your chances of getting top 1 position. There is a strong 'knowing when to stop / pushing your luck' element to trying to get the highest possible position.

Consider 3 equally high ranked players at a game, if they all just play each other then they will end up equal. But if PlayerA plays more frequently then they'll get to play a 4th lower ranked player and get some extra points. At which point does the risk of losing a lot of points outweigh gaining a few extra points? That's kinda ELO in a nutshell, but when you're in the last few weeks of Arena, these are a focus for your goal.
While this seems like a rhetorical statement, it does seem to be the case for games that don't get played much and it's just a handful of players going for gold.

[Silene]

doesn't this just bring it back to who had the longest luckiest streak though?

It is kind of. There's still skill around the edges to have some games on the edge included in the streak or an upset during the streak.

Honoring the best streak seems like the best possible thing to reward on a concept where you want to reward both skill AND diligence during a fixed time period and regardless of when during this period you're gonna play or not play. So why not? What else would you want to see in an "best player during the season"-award? You need diligence in order to get to a nice streak in the first place but also skill in order to tap off the games that are close in your favor.