Please explain my GSP Numbers to me

[kimohno]

Hey guys.

I have only casually played since Melee and never Online. Now I am back to rock (or rather get rocked), but I am pretty much confused about how GSP works.

These are my numbers:

https://imgur.com/a/Gdn2ruZ

I don't get it. I started winning some Games, but noticing the score at all, but now I loose ALL games. I can't win a single 1v1. My characters start at 2 Mil. (why?) and immediately drop down to like 150.000

So - why is my score so high? (is he high, i dont know?)
Why is my TOP one Not higher than all together.

I am seriously confused. Thanks for your time.

 

[popemanz]

if anyone tells you they can they are lying

 

[leafgreen386]

I have no idea how the combined one works. It might just mean you've played with a lot of characters online, whereas most players don't.

The reason your characters start off around 2 mil is because you managed to climb that high with at least one character, and the game is assuming that skill transfers to your other characters.

 

[NathanD]

It's easier to move roster GSP up by playing a breadth of characters vs getting one higher. My rosters about 1.5 mil though I am sitting at 2.6 mil on Lucas. It was 1.2 mil when I had played 3 characters to 750k.

I noticed that when playing characters who I have a GSP lower than my roster GSP I very frequently get match ups at my roster GSP. This can be 1 mil higher than my character. That never happened when my GSPs were close to my roster GSP.

They probably have some sort of acceleration compenant in calculating GSP gained/lost. The acceleration is probably set to max when you first play a character meaning you are capable of losing massive amounts of GSP if you bomb that first game. I've also noticed that in my three or four climbs from 100k to 2 mil that at first I'll gain like 50k GSP but as I hit large win streaks I gain more and more GSP per win.

This is all hypothetical based on some things of seen in other games, my knowledge of ELO algorithms, and casual observation.