PvP Ranks

[Watto44]

This is actually quite a crushing blow for me. A few weeks ago I decided that I was going to dedicate more of my time to PvP because, one I love it and two I have difficulty finding groups to collect decent gear and rarely get invited to MC (once a fortnight on average). So I thought I'd have a crack at collecting the blue pvp set. After reading this I busted out the calculater and did some referencing between warcraftrealms.com and the pvp rankings feature on the bliz site.

Terenas:
Total Population: 23,575 (Alliance: 16,997, Horde: 6,573)
Level 51-60: 5,380 (A:3845, H:1535)
Level 60: 3,582 (A: 2541, H: 1041)

Rank 11 and higher: 16 (A: 10, H: 6)
Rank 10 (what I'm aiming for): 17 (A: 8, H: 9)

Rank 11 and Higher as a % of:
%
Total Pop 0.067
51-60 0.297
60 0.415
Total Faction A: 0.058/H: 0.091
Faction 51-60 0.26/0.39
Faction 60 0.394/0.576

Ok, so as I understand it the number of players who can attain rank 11 or higher is based on the number of players who actually engage in PvP (although I don't know how blizzard determines who exactly engages in pvp). So let's look at the number of players who engage in pvp using the 1.4% recently given by blizzard, and then apply the originally intended 5% to that and see what comes up. (Again, I don't know if blizzard splits these calculation by faction or not, so I'm including both posibilites, not that it makes much difference.)

Number of PvPers(5% of them)
based on:
Total Rank 11 1143(57)
Faction Rank 11(Alliance/Horde) 714(36)/429(21)

What does this mean? Well, for one thing at the moment I have to aim to keep my standing at 15 or higher in order to achieve rank 10!!! Meaning that I have to be in the top 15 horde pvpers to aquire a BLUE set. (Right now, based on the above figures, approximately 3.5% of a faction's pvp pool can achieve rank 10 or higher.) In order to get my next rank (rank 8) I have to maintain a standing higher than 48, or in the 11th percentile of the horde pvp pool. If you adjust the 3.5% based on an increase from 1.4% to 5%, the theoretical "desired" percentage of players who can achieve rank 10 or higher is 12.5%, or 54 players from terenas's horde pvp population.

I was already a little down about not getting promoted to rank 8 (shiny new chest and pants for me!), and crunching these numbers was too much. On the plus side, I got to spend the time reading a trashy book and enjoying spring. :) What these figures mean is that as it stands it's essentially impossible for me to aquire the full set of blue gear unless I do nothing other than pvp all day everyday, which ain't going to happen.

Sorry for the long post, but I was really disappointed by this and wanted to vent. I'd be interested to see figures from other servers and to see if they matched up, but I'm far too lazy to do this right now. :D